Man Sentenced to Death for Killing 35 People with Car: Reports

Mar. 15, 2025

Photo:AP Photo/Ng Han Guan

A man lights a candle near flowers placed outside the “Zhuhai People’s Fitness Plaza”, where a man deliberately rammed his car into people exercising at the sports center, killing some and injuring others in Zhuhai in southern China’s Guangdong province

AP Photo/Ng Han Guan

Fan reportedly drove his car into a crowd of people exercising outside a stadium in Zhuhai, a coastal city in southern China’s Guangdong province, on Nov. 11. Thirty-five people were killed and another 43 were injured in the incident, perthe Associated Press, which cited local police.

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The car attack was just the latest such incident in China: earlier in December, another manreceived a suspended death sentencefor reportedly driving a car into a crowd of schoolchildren in Hunan province in November, injuring 30 people, including 18 children.

source: people.com