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Yuanyue Dang

Nearly three dozen people were killed in a car attack on a crowd in the southern Chinese city of Zhuhai on Monday, police said, releasing the death toll a full day after the incident.
In an attack authorities described as a “major malicious case”, Zhuhai police said on Tuesday night that 35 people were killed when a 62-year-old man surnamed Fan drove an SUV into a crowd outside a stadium at 7.48pm.
The victims had been exercising at the time and the car was in an area off limits to vehicles, police said.
Another 43 people were wounded in the incident that took place on the eve of an international air show in the city, although none were in a life-threatening condition.
The police did not name the victims.


More than 300 medical workers at five Zhuhai hospitals were treating the wounded, and the National Health Commission said it sent a team of 11 specialists to the city to help on Tuesday.
The attacker was stopped and taken to hospital after trying to kill himself, Zhuhai police said. He was in a coma, receiving medical treatment and “unable to be questioned by police”.
But authorities said a preliminary investigation indicated that Fan was motivated by dissatisfaction with the division of property in his divorce case.
In a statement on Monday night – as videos spread online – Zhuhai police said only that a car had “hit a number of pedestrians and then fled”.

On Tuesday night, President Xi Jinping ordered local governments to “strictly prevent extreme cases”.
Calling the incident “extremely vicious”, Xi urged local authorities to do their utmost to save the wounded and “severely punish the criminal”.
Xi also urged local governments to “strengthen the prevention and control of risks and promptly resolve conflicts and disputes”, state news agency Xinhua reported.
Premier Li Qiang said local governments should investigate “hidden risks and social conflicts”, Xinhua added.
Nanfang Daily, the official Communist Party mouthpiece in Guangdong province, where Zhuhai is located, reported on Tuesday night that senior provincial officials had held a meeting to discuss handling of the case.

Guangdong party secretary Huang Kunming, the province’s top official who is also a member of the elite Politburo, called for a “thorough investigation” of all types of disputes, including those involving “marriages and families, neighbourhood disputes, lawsuits, agriculture and land rights, and finance and real estate”.
Local officials should also increase support for “people in hardship” and Guangdong should strengthen social security management, Huang said.

China has witnessed a number of lone wolf attacks against the public in recent years, as the country has struggled to regain economic momentum, create jobs and build public confidence in income and growth prospects.
Two fatal knife attacks were reported in China in September – one in a supermarket in Shanghai in which three people were killed and one in the southern city of Shenzhen that claimed the life of a Japanese schoolboy.
There were also two stabbings near schools last month. An attack in Guangzhou on October 8 left three people wounded, including two primary school pupils.
Two weeks later, five people, three of them primary school pupils, were wounded in another stabbing outside a school in Beijing’s tech hub Haidian district.

Six people were killed in a deliberate car crash in the southern city of Guangzhou in January last year. Another crash in the northern city of Dalian killed five in 2021. In both cases, the drivers were executed.
The Zhuhai car attack is the worst of these incidents, and reporting on these cases has been severely restricted by the authorities.
The attack also comes at a particularly sensitive time in southern China, with many domestic and international visitors in Zhuhai this week to attend the city’s air show, an event held every two years.
Next month, Xi is also expected to visit Macau – near Zhuhai – to attend events marking the 25th anniversary of Macau’s return to China from Portugal and the inauguration of the special administrative region’s new government.


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The attack took place outside a stadium in Zhuhai as people exercised on Monday night. Photo: Handout

The attack took place outside a stadium in Zhuhai where people were exercising, police say. Photo: Handout

A man lights a candle near flowers placed outside a Zhuhai sports centre on Tuesday where a man deliberately rammed his car into people exercising a day earlier. Photo: AP

 A 62-year-old man surnamed Fan allegedly drove an SUV into an area outside a Zhuhai sports centre and killed 35 people. Photo: Handout

In all, 35 people died in the attack on Monday night, police say. Photo: Handout

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Police officers stand outside the stadium where a deadly car attack took place in Zhuhai, Guangdong province. Photo: Reuters

Police say people were exercising at the time of the attack outside the stadium. Photo: AP

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