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Night vigil for accident victims
35 people were killed and 43 injured because of the anger a driver felt over the division of assets in his divorce. At this moment, he is unconscious: when he was caught, he was mutilating himself in the car.
The 62-year-old man who ran over dozens of people in Zhuhai was caught by police while mutilated with a knife inside the car. The police said that the reason for the accident was the driver’s anger over his divorce, which sharing of assets did not go as expected.
The collision occurred this Tuesday next to a sports complex which is used by hundreds of people daily to run, play football or dance.
🚨🇨🇳35 DEAD AS DRIVER RAMS CROWD IN CHINESE CITY
A 62-year-old driver struck a crowd of people exercising at a sports center in Zhuhai, southern China, killing 35 and injuring 43.
Authorities detained the driver, identified only by his surname, Fan, as investigations continue.…
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As police set up barricades preventing people from entering the sports complex on Tuesday, the crowd left bouquets of flowers in a square near the site.
According to AP, “in China, there has been aseries of attacks in which suspects appear to randomly target the public“.
The agency recalls an episode from October, in which a man attacked children at a school in Beijing, another from September, in which a killer caused 3 deaths in a supermarket and another in May, when two people died in an attack on a hospital.
Despite videos of the incident circulating on social media, Chinese authorities are trying to control information about the incident. The BBC reported that a journalist made a recording.
Chinese Internet censors should be taking extra care to “clean up” social media as an aviation exhibition is taking place in the city of Zhuhai.
