The tragedy occurred in the sports center of Zhuahai, a city in southern China. China. While the authorities initially reported only one incident, with police reporting only injuries, the videos that were published on the social networks which have since been removed, suggested the worst. On Tuesday, local police announced that 35 people had been killed and 43 injured after a car ploughed into a crowd Monday evening.
Driver suffers serious knife wounds
The driver, a 62-year-old man, “forced entry in a small SUV and drove straight into the city’s sports center, knocking over people working out in the indoor aisles,” police said in a statement. The driver, whose first name is Fan, was arrested while beating himself with a knife “and was sent to hospital for treatment”, according to the same source. He is now in a coma. injuries to the neck and “is in no condition to be questioned”, added the police.
The President Xi Jinping called for “all necessary measures” to be taken to treat the injured, and hoped that the perpetrator would be “punished in accordance with the law”.