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A man upset over his divorce settlement rammed his SUV into a crowd of people exercising at a sports complex in southern China this week, killing 35 people and injuring dozens more in the latest incident of mass killings afflicting the country, the Associated Press reported.

Chinese media outlet Caixin reported that the SUV crashed into multiple fitness walking groups, hitting dozens of participants, including the elderly and children.

The vehicle “struck all around, injuring people in various sections of the sports field’s circular track, across the eastern, southern, western, and northern areas,” a witness told Caixin.

Police arrested a 62-year-old man, who is being treated for wounds thought to be self-inflicted, shortly after the attack Monday evening in Zhuhai, a city currently hosting the People’s Liberation Army’s annual aviation exhibition.

“Officers found Fan self-harming with a knife in the vehicle, immediately stopped him and sent him to hospital for treatment – due to severe neck injuries, Fan is currently unconscious, still undergoing emergency treatment and unable to be interrogated,” police said, according to CNN, referring to the suspect by his last name.

Authorities said he was angry over the dispensation of the marital assets in his divorce.

Videos of the incident that evaded censors on social media – Chinese authorities took down most reports of the incident Monday night – showed dozens of people lying on the track at the sports complex, which is used by hundreds of people to run, play soccer, or dance.

China, a country of 1.4 billion people, has low crime rates but has seen a number of attacks recently in which suspects appear to target members of the public at random, the AP wrote.

In October, a man was detained after he allegedly attacked children with a knife at a school in Beijing, wounding five. A month earlier, three people were killed in a knife attack in a Shanghai supermarket, by a man with “personal financial disputes” who wanted to vent.