Man Sentenced to Death for Killing 35 People with Car: Reports

Fan Weiqiu was reportedly upset about his recent divorce settlement when he rammed his car into a crowd in China

A man has been sentenced to death by a Chinese court after being accused of ramming his car into a crowd and killing 35 people last month, reportedly because he was upset at his recent divorce settlement.

Fan Weiqiu, 62, received the punishment on Friday, Dec. 27, from the Zhuhai Intermediate People's Court for "endangering public safety by dangerous means," according to China's state-run news agency Xinhua.

Fan reportedly drove his car into a crowd of people exercising outside a stadium in Zhuhai, a coastal city in southern China's Guangdong province, on Nov. 11. Thirty-five people were killed and another 43 were injured in the incident, per the Associated Press, which cited local police.

Authorities in Zhuhai contend that Fan was upset about his recent divorce settlement, particularly the division of financial assets, according to the AP.

The car attack was just the latest such incident in China: earlier in December, another man received a suspended death sentence for reportedly driving a car into a crowd of schoolchildren in Hunan province in November, injuring 30 people, including 18 children.