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A court in China has sentenced a man to death for killing 35 people last month by driving into a crowd, in an attack that raised national concern about mass killings.

Fan Weiqiu was venting his anger because he was unhappy with his divorce settlement, the court in the southern city of Zhuhai said in handing down the sentence on Friday. The victims were exercising at a sports centre at the time of the attack. Fan pleaded guilty to endangering public safety by dangerous means, a court statement said.

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[–] [email protected] 26 points 4 days ago (2 children)

Dude 35 people? That's so sad. Makes me think the spouse made the right choice to GTFO.

[–] ChicoSuave 9 points 4 days ago (4 children)

China has a habit of limiting body counts to maximum 35. There were likely many more.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 days ago
[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 days ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 days ago

Yes. If I had access to a dataset, I'm sure I could show a peak at 35 reports. But I don't, and I'm not sure one exists, given China's tight control over anything that might make them look bad.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 4 days ago

Oopsie, the pen broke, guess we'll have to stop counting. 🤷‍♂️

[–] Grimy 3 points 4 days ago

I mean, if we are going to go by body count because of lunatics taking out their hate on strangers, she made a worse choice coming here, no?

[–] [email protected] 21 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Dude allegedly did this because of... marriage issues?

Bro go find some government official and do something (🗡) about them, not random people in the street.

[–] SkunkWorkz 8 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (1 children)

In my country couple of weeks ago a guy ordered a hit on his ex girlfriend’s store. The store blew up and collapsed including the several apartments above it. Six unrelated people died. A kid survived, he lost his parents and sister.

Some men need to stay single forever and never get into a relationship.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 3 days ago

But not being in a relationship is what causes them to do these things...

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 days ago (3 children)

Cars have been around for almost a century. Has this "goimg postal in a car" thing started happening only recently (and increasingly) or it was just outside of the news cycle?

[–] [email protected] 12 points 4 days ago

It’s been done the same rate the past 80 or hundred years, but incidents have only attracted attention, so widely, due to internet.

Source: am old, used to read physical newspapers

[–] [email protected] 7 points 4 days ago

oh absolutely not. The information has just not been reported on... for some reason.
The kindergarten stabbings that are really common in China are hardly talked about in the west and have been happening for iirc 5 years.
Here's a video by someone who used to live in China talking about it https://youtu.be/bEjsGj-NTFw

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 days ago

It's new, along with the uptick of other mass violence events. It's just that in the US it's guns, in other places, it's cars or bladed weapons.