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Prisoner flees hospital during heart disease treatment

A prisoner serving a life sentence escaped while undergoing heart disease treatment at a hospital in northeast China's Liaoning Province last Wednesday.

The provincial Justice Department confirmed that the inmate had escaped and said a manhunt was underway, Director Zhang Jiacheng told Beijing News today.

The prisoner ran away after being taken to the outpatient department of Shenyang's No. 3 Hospital Affiliated to Shenyang Medical College to have an ultrasound, a hospital staffer told the newspaper.

He got in a car with two others and left the hospital, a witness said, according to the report.

The prisoner was serving his jail term in Shenyang No. 2 Prison and had been in the hospital for weeks due to heart problems, the report said.



 

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