Thirty-five people died when an SUV was driven into people exercising outside a sports complex in the southern city of Zhuhai.
A woman holding a bouquet of flowers heads towards the sports centre where the deadly car attack took place, in Zhuhai, in China's Guangdong province.BEIJING - A man apprehended by Chinese police for killing 35 people when he rammed his car into a crowd was formally placed under arrest on Nov 16, state media said.Police said Fan was detained at the scene but was in a coma after self-inflicted knife injuries, which prevented them from interrogating him.
The attack was the deadliest since 2014, when a vehicle ramming and suicide bombing in the northwestern city of Urumqi killed 43 - including four assailants - and wounded more than 90. AFP saw residents and delivery drivers laying bouquets at a gate outside the sports complex on Wednesday - but within minutes the flowers were carried behind a cordon fence.
Videos and images of the attack meanwhile appeared to be removed from online platforms by China’s internet censors.
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