BEIJING: 35 people were killed and 43 people were injured when a car crashed into people exercising around a sports center in Zhuhai city in southern China, local police said on Tuesday (November 12).

The crash was reported on Monday, but at the time police said only people were injured, while videos of the incident appear to have been removed from social media.

However, on Tuesday, police announced that a “serious and violent attack” had occurred at the Zhuhai Sports Center and that the death toll was 35.

The injuries of 43 people are not life-threatening.

Police said in a statement that preliminary investigations suggested that the 62-year-old driver, surnamed Fan, was “triggered by his dissatisfaction with the division of property following his divorce.”

In the statement, it was stated that Fan “put a small SUV through the gate and forced his way into the city’s sports center, hitting people exercising on the inner roads of the sports center.”

He was “checked at the scene by police who rushed to the scene as he tried to walk away”.

Police found Fan cutting himself with a knife in his car, then stopped him and sent him to the hospital.

Police added that he is currently in a coma and cannot be interrogated due to the injuries he sustained to his neck and other parts of his body.

The official Xinhua news agency said Chinese President Xi Jinping called for “all-out efforts” to treat the injured and “demanded that the perpetrator be punished in accordance with the law.”

Sensational videos circulating on social media on Monday night showed the aftermath of the incident, but most had disappeared by Tuesday.

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