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On Monday night, a man crushed several people with a car in China’s Zhuhai city. 35 people have died in this accident while 43 people are seriously injured. Police have arrested the 62 year old driver in this case.
According to the police, this incident happened near a sports center where people had come to exercise. Whether this was an attack or an accident is not clear yet. The accused has been identified by his family name Fan.
Police issued a statement saying that the fan was caught with a knife in the car. There were marks of self-harm on his neck. He was unconscious when he was caught, currently he is undergoing treatment. According to the police, Fan was not happy about the division of property after their divorce.
China censored the news
An army exhibition was to be organized in Zhuhai on Tuesday. Due to this, the Chinese government censored the news of people’s deaths. According to the report of news agency AP, many articles related to this news were removed from Chinese media on Tuesday morning.
Apart from this, the articles that were published were published without photos and videos. However, videos and photos related to the incident went viral on social media platform X. These were posted by a user named Young Lee.
In these videos, many people were seen lying injured on the road.
After the incident, people were lying injured outside the sports center.
After the incident, police and ambulance were deployed on the spot.
Such incidents have happened in China before
Such incidents of attacks on people have already come to light in China. In October, a man attacked a school in the capital Beijing. 5 people were injured in this attack. Police had arrested a 50-year-old man for the attack.
Apart from this, a similar incident had also happened in September. A man attacked people with a knife in a supermarket in China’s port city Shanghai. 3 people were killed in this attack.