dpa
Beijing
The men responsible for two separate mass attacks in China last November in which dozens of people were killed have been executed, according to the country’s official news agency Xinhua on Monday.
There was no connection between the two attacks, which occurred in Zhuhai in southern China and Wuxi in the east of the country.
In Zhuhai, a 62-year-old man deliberately drove his car into a crowd at a sports centre on November 11, killing 35 people and injuring 43 others.
The motive for that attack was said to be the man’s dissatisfaction with the division of assets following his divorce.
On December 27, a court sentenced him to death for "endangering public safety by dangerous means.”
In Wuxi, a man attacked people with a knife on the campus of a vocational school in Jiangsu province.
Eight people were killed and others were injured. The authorities initially suspected that he had acted out of revenge for failing to graduate. He was convicted and sentenced to death in mid-December.