According to local police, the driver was found in his car cutting himself with a knife, arrested and taken to a hospital; President Xi Jinping requested the punishment ‘in accordance with the law’
A driver killed 35 people and injured 43 others when he drove his car into a group in the southern city of Zhuhai on Monday night (11), local police reported on Tuesday (12). The first information about the attack was released on Monday, but the police had announced that the collision had left only injuries and videos of the incident disappeared from social media. This Tuesday, the police admitted that “a serious and aggressive attack took place at the Zhuhai Sports Center”, a city that hosts an important aviation fair this week. “A suspect rammed his car into people exercising, resulting in 35 deaths and 43 injuries,” local police said. The 62-year-old driver, surnamed Fan, threw “a small SUV through the gate and forced his way into the city’s sports center, running over people exercising in the inner streets” there, he said.
Police found Fan in his car cutting himself with a knife. “They immediately arrested him and sent him to a hospital for treatment,” the police force said. He is currently in a coma due to self-inflicted injuries to his neck and other parts of his neck and “unable to submit to interrogation”, police added. The Chinese president, , called for “every effort” to heal the injured and “punish the attacker in accordance with the law,” the official Xinhua news agency reported. The city of Zhuhai, located near the autonomous regions of Macau and Macau, is hosting this week the country’s largest civil and military aerospace fair.
*With information from AFP
Published by Matheus Lopes
