Chinese arsonist is executed for setting fire to a busy karaoke lounge killing 18 after one of its female workers rejected his advances
- Liu Chunlu was executed today after being sentenced to death last September
- He set the venue in China ablaze last April because he was angry at the brush-off
- The bar’s only exit was blocked by burning motorbikes and 18 people were killed
An arsonist in China has been executed for setting fire to a popular karaoke lounge in a revenge attack which left 18 people dead.
Liu Chunlu, then 32 years old, carried out the crime last April after a female worker at the bar rejected his advances – a move that infuriated Liu.
Liu, who had been drinking and singing at the bar with friends, then yanked out the fuel pipe from his motorbike parked outside, spread gasoline on the ground in front of the three-storey building and set the fuel ablaze with a cigarette lighter.
Liu Chunlu, pictured (right) when he was arrested, was executed today in Guangdong, China, for setting a karaoke bar on fire (left), leaving 18 people dead and three people wounded.
Flames quickly engulfed the entertainment venue, and its only passage of entering and exiting was blocked by several burning motorcycles.
Fifteen men and three women were killed during the fire in the county-level city of Yingde in southern China’s Guangdong Province around midnight on April 24, 2018.
Three other people were injured.
This aerial photo provide by China’s Xinhua News Agency shows the fire accident site in Yingde, south China’s Guangdong Province, on April 24, 2018. The venue’s only passage of entering and existing was blocked by burning motorbikes during the fatal incident
Liu, a migrant worker, fled the scene but was arrested by police the next day.
Chinese state-run publication Global Times released a video showing the suspect being caught and questioned by police.
In the video, the man admitted that he had set fire to his motorcycle. He also claimed that he had had too much to drink and got into a fight.
Liu was sentenced to death in September last year. His behaviour had resulted in several deaths and big economic losses, said the verdict from the Intermediate People’s Court of Qingyuan. The picture above shows the karaoke bar in Yingde after the fire was put out
The blaze broke out in the county-level city of Yingde, overseen by Qingyuan in Guangdong
The man was found guilty of intentional arson and sentenced to death on September 11 last year.
His behaviour had resulted in several deaths and big economic losses, said the verdict from the Intermediate People’s Court of Qingyuan, which oversees Yingde.
He was executed this morning after the Supreme People’s Court of China approved the capital penalty, Guangdong Provincial High People’s Court said in a statement.
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