China hanged a man on Monday who was responsible for the bloodiest mass attack in the nation’s history, a car rampage in November that killed 35 people in the southern city of Zhuhai.
In China’s biggest such crime since 2014, Fan Weiqiu, 62, intentionally drove a tiny SUV through groups of people working out outside a sports complex on November 11, injuring 45 people.
The court said that his motivations “were extremely vile, (and) the nature of the crime extremely egregious” when it sentenced him to death last month.
According to state broadcaster CCTV, Fan Weiqiu was “executed in accordance with the execution order issued by the Supreme People’s Court” by a Zhuhai court on Monday.
According to CCTV, the municipal public prosecutor “sent personnel to supervise (the execution) in accordance with the law”.
