China executes man who killed 35 in car rampage: state media

Published January 20, 2025
A delivery man (C) lays online orders of flower bouquets at a makeshift memorial outside the Zhuhai Sports Centre in Zhuhai in south China’s Guangdong province on November 13, 2024, two days after 35 people were killed when a man drove a car into a crowd in one of the country’s deadliest mass-casualty events in years. — Hector Ratamal / AFP File Photo
A delivery man (C) lays online orders of flower bouquets at a makeshift memorial outside the Zhuhai Sports Centre in Zhuhai in south China’s Guangdong province on November 13, 2024, two days after 35 people were killed when a man drove a car into a crowd in one of the country’s deadliest mass-casualty events in years. — Hector Ratamal / AFP File Photo

China on Monday executed a man who killed 35 people in a car rampage in the southern city of Zhuhai in November, state media said.

A court in the city “executed Fan Weiqiu in accordance with the execution order issued by the Supreme People’s Court”, state broadcaster CCTV said.

On November 11, 62-year-old Fan deliberately drove a small SUV through crowds of people exercising outside a sports complex.

He killed 35 and wounded 43, state media reported at the time, in China’s deadliest attack since 2014.

Fan was detained at the scene with self-inflicted knife wounds and fell into a coma, police said at the time.

He was sentenced to death last month, with a court saying his motives “were extremely vile, the nature of the crime extremely egregious, the methods particularly cruel, and the consequences particularly severe, posing significant harm to society”.

CCTV said on Monday that Zhuhai’s public prosecutor “sent personnel to supervise [the execution] in accordance with the law”.

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