A Chinese court has sentenced a man to death for killing 35 people last month when he drove his car into a crowd of pedestrians outside a sports center, an attack that has sparked nationwide outrage over mass killings, the Associated Press reported.
A court in the southern Chinese city of Zhuhai in Guangdong province sentenced Fan Weiqiu on Monday, saying the nature of the crime was extremely heinous, the approach particularly brutal and the consequences particularly severe.
The court found that Fan, 62, took out his anger on innocent people because he was unhappy with a divorce settlement.
In the days after the attack, Chinese President Xi Jinping ordered local authorities to take necessary measures to prevent similar incidents. "extreme cases" in the future, AP notes.