China executes couple who flung two toddlers to their death - BBC News

The father of the children conspired with his girlfriend to throw the toddlers out of their apartment.

9 hours agoShareclose panelShare pageCopy linkAbout sharingImage source, Getty ImagesImage caption, The deaths of the two-year-old girl and one-year-old boy in Chinese city Chongqing sent shock waves through the country in 2020.By Fan WangBBC News China has executed a couple who fatally threw two children out of the window of an apartment building.

Zhang Bo - the father of the children - and Ye Chengchen were previously found guilty of killing the two-year-old girl and one-year-old boy in 2020.

Zhang had begun an affair with Ye and later divorced his wife, and began conspiring to kill his children.

China's Supreme Court had called the couples' motives "extremely malicious", highlighting their "cruel methods".

The couple were executed in the south-western city of Chongqing on Wednesday. It is not clear how the execution was carried out, although death sentences in China are mostly carried out by lethal injection or a firing squad.

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