**A former community doctor who killed eight school children in China’s eastern Fujian province has been executed, state media say.**Zheng Minsheng, 42, was shot in the city of Nanping after China’s top court approved his sentence, Xinhua news agency reported.
The execution came one month after he stabbed eight young children to death at a primary school in the same city.
Police said he carried out the attack after breaking up with a girlfriend.
Reports at the time of the attack had suggested he had a history of mental illness, but state media later quoted police as saying that was not the case.
Five other children were injured in the 23 March attack.
Zheng was convicted on 8 April and had appealed unsuccessfully against his death sentence.This article is from the BBC News website. © British Broadcasting Corporation, The BBC is not responsible for the content of external internet sites.
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