Authorities said 35 people have been killed and 43 injured after a car crashed into the crowd outside Zhuhai Sports Centre in the southern province of Guangdong on Monday

Chinese president Xi Jinping ordered an "all-out effort" to treat the injured and called for severe punishment of a man who rammed his car into people at a sports centre in the southern Chinese city of Zhuhai, killing at least 35 people.

By David Kirton ZHUHAI, China (Reuters) -A driver rammed his car into a crowd at a sports centre in southern China, killing 35 people and severely injuring 43 in one of the deadliest attacks in contemporary Chinese history.

Officials in southern China ramped up security on Wednesday at the site of one of the country's deadliest mass-casualty events in years, snuffing out makeshift memorials to the 35 people killed when a man drove a car into a crowd at a sports complex.

Officials in southern China ramped up security on Wednesday at the site of the country's deadliest attack in a decade, snuffing out makeshift memorials to the 35 people killed when

A man upset about his divorce settlement rammed his car into a crowd in China, killing at least 35 people and injuring 43, police said.

A man killed 35 people and injured 43 more when he ploughed his car into those exercising around a sports centre in the southern Chinese city of Zhuhai on Monday,