China executes man for car rampage that killed dozens

The attacker ploughed into people outside a stadium in the country's deadliest attack in a decade.

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Fan Weiqiu, 62, injured dozens more when he drove his car into people exercising outside a stadium in the southern city of Zhuhai.

State media said a second man was executed for a separate attack that came days later. Xu Jiajin, 21, killed eight people in a stabbing spree at his university in the eastern city of Wuxi.

Authorities said Fan was driven by "dissatisfaction" over how his property had been divided following his divorce, while Xu carried out his attack after "failing to obtain his diploma due to poor exam results".

Fan was detained at the scene on 11 November, where police said he was found with self-inflicted wounds.

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