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In stifling voices after Zhuhai car attack, China recycles crisis playbook
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People placing floral tributes on Nov 13 outside a sports centre in Zhuhai, China, where a deadly car attack took place two days earlier.
PHOTO: REUTERS
BEIJING/ZHUHAI – When word broke on social media that a deadly car rampage had struck his city on Nov 11, a Zhuhai resident surnamed Yang “did not really believe it”.
It was only the next day, when China’s state broadcaster CCTV reported the incident, that he realised its severity – 35 people killed and 43 injured in the country’s deadliest mass attack in a decade.
