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Another fleeing inmate captured following manhunt by 1,000 police

Source: Xinhua | September 4, 2014, Thursday | Online Edition

Police have captured the second of the three inmates who escaped a detention center after killing a guard early Tuesday in northeast China's Heilongjiang Province.

Wang Daming was seized in Xinsheng village, Yanshou County at around 00:50 am Thursday, said the Public Security Bureau of Harbin, the provincial capital.

Earlier at around 8:15 pm Wednesday, also in Yanshou County, Li Haiwei, one of the three escaped inmates, was netted near Yushan village.

The last member Gao Yulun remains at large, police said.

Gao was being held at the facility while his death penalty for homicide was being reviewed, while the two other men were awaiting sentencing, Li for murder and Wang for intentional injury.

More than 1,000 police officers took part in the hunt for the three fugitives, each of whom was armed, the provincial department of public security said.

The bureau said earlier that the men were not armed.

According to a Beijing News report, the men — each dressed in stolen police uniforms — took just 53 seconds to escape from the detention center.

No one, however, seems to know exactly how they managed their audacious feat.

Detention centers are divided into separate areas and movement from one to another is through locked gateways. Each section is also patrolled by armed guards.

Furthermore, serious offenders, such as those charged with murder, are permanently handcuffed and monitored around the clock. But in the case of Li, Gao and Wang, it appears they simply walked out.

A guard near the exit is said to have become suspicious, but did little other than fire a warning shot into the air when it became clear the three men were making a bid for freedom.

 

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