BANGKOK (AP) — A man who authorities said was upset over a divorce settlement crashed his car into a crowd of people exercising at a sports complex in southern China, killing 35 people and seriously injuring dozens more, police said Tuesday.

Police detained the 62-year-old man, who was being treated for injuries thought to be self-inflicted, shortly after the attack in the southern Chinese city of Zhuhai on Monday night. The city hosts the People’s Liberation Army’s annual aviation exhibition, which opened on Tuesday, and searches for what it is for users behind China’s Great Firewall are heavily censored.

However, beyond the controls, videos were also circulating on social media platform X. Dozens of people could be seen lounging on the jogging track at the sports complex, where hundreds of residents regularly use to run, play football or exercise. dance.

“My foot is broken,” a woman says in one of the images shared by news blogger and dissident Li Ying. The same video showed a firefighter performing CPR on a person while others were told to leave. Known as Teacher Li on X, Li publishes daily news based on user notifications

Police said that in addition to the 35 people killed, 43 people were injured.

China has seen a series of attacks in which suspects target random people.

In October, a man was detained for allegedly using a knife to attack children at a school in Beijing. Five people were injured. In September, three people died in a stabbing attack at a supermarket in Shanghai.

Police identified the man detained in Monday’s attack only by the surname Fan, as is customary, and said the man was unconscious and receiving medical care after he was found injured and with a knife in his car.

According to preliminary investigation, she was unhappy with the division of financial assets in her divorce, police said.

Chinese authorities appear to be tightly controlling information about the incident. Internet censors tend to take extra care in sanitizing social media before and during major events such as an aviation expo or the annual meeting of the National People’s Congress.

Although almost 24 hours had passed since the attack, it was not clear what the number of dead or injured was. On Tuesday morning, a search for the sports center on Chinese social media platform Weibo turned up only a few posts; only a few posts referenced the fact that something happened without pictures or details. Chinese media articles about the incident were removed Monday night.

In a statement on Tuesday evening, Chinese leader Xi Jinping called for the perpetrator to be punished “strictly” according to the law.

He also called on all local governments to “strengthen the prevention and control of risks at the source, strictly prevent the occurrence of extreme cases, and resolve conflicts and disputes in a timely manner,” according to the official Xinhua news agency.