China has executed a man found guilty of killing at least 35 people in a car attack in November, in what is thought to be the deadliest attack in the country for a decade. Fan Weiqiu, 62, injured dozens more when he drove his car into people exercising outside a stadium in the southern city of Zhuhai. State media said a second man was executed for a separate attack that came days later. Xu Jiajin, 21, killed eight people in a stabbing spree at his university in the eastern city of Wuxi.
Fan Weiqiu, 62, deliberately drove an SUV into crowds of people exercising outside a sports complex on November 11, injuring 45 others in what became China’s worst mass crime since 2014. Fan was sentenced to death last month, with the court condemning his actions as “extremely vile” and describing the crime as “extremely egregious.
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”.
