BEIJING: China on Monday executed a man who killed 35 people in a car rampage in the southern city of Zhuhai in the country`s deadliest mass attack in years.

Fan Weigiu, 62, deliberately drove a small SUV through crowds of people exercising outside a sports complex, also injuring 45 on Nov 11, last year.

He was sentenced to death last month, with a court saying his motives `were extremely vile, (and) the nature of the crime extremely egregious`.

State CCTV said a Zhuhai court `executed Fan Weigiu in accordance with the execution order issued by the Supreme People`s Court`.

At his trial last month, Fan pleaded guilty, state media said.

The court found he `decided to vent his anger` over `a broken marriage, personal frustrations, and dissatisfaction with the division of property after divorce`.

Also, CCTV reported a separate court in eastern Jiangsu province had carried out the death penalty on a man who killed eight people and wounded 17 in a mass stabbing in November.

Xu Jiajin, a 21-year-old former student who attacked a vocational school in the city of Wuxi, was executed `in accordance with the law`, CCTV reported.-Agencies