A Chinese court convicted a 62-year-old man to death today over the deliberate car attack on crowds in Zhuhai last month, which resulted in killing 35 people and wounding 43 others.
The Zhuhai Intermediate People’s Court ruled that Fan intentionally drove his SUV into a crowd exercising outside a sports center at around 8 p.m. on November 11. According to the court, the motive for Fan was anger due to dissatisfaction with life, which included a contested property division following his divorce.
According to state media outlet Xinhua, it was the “broken marriage and discontent with property division” that led Fan to target the crowd deliberately, he admitted during the trial.
During a horrific incident when Fan hit people exercising at the door of the local sports centre in his vehicle, court treated the attack as pre-planned and quoted grave casualties happened with Fan.
Chinese state television CCTV also reported that a driver responsible for another deadly car attack in Changde on November 19 has been handed a death sentence with a two-year reprieve.
