Fugitive recaptured in Heilongjiang following manhunt by 1,000 police
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ONE of the three men who escaped from a detention center in northeast China’s Heilongjiang Province on Tuesday was recaptured last night.
Li Haiwei, 29, and Gao Yulun, 50, were spotted about 8pm yesterday in the village of Yushan, Yanshou County, said police in Harbin, the provincial capital.
Li was apprehended and is now back behind bars, but Gao managed to evade recapture and remains at large, police said.
The third member of the trio, Wang Damin, 35, is also still on the run, they said.
Police did not say if Li’s capture came as a result of a tip-off. Local authorities on Tuesday offered a reward of 100,000 yuan (US$16,250) per man for information leading to their recapture, and this was raised to 150,000 yuan after the Ministry of Public Security added the three Yanshou locals to its most-wanted list.
Li, Gao and Wang fled the detention center near Harbin on Tuesday morning after allegedly killing a guard.
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.
Earlier reports said that two of the fugitives had been recaptured on Tuesday afternoon, but that claim was dismissed by the government and police.
A similar jailbreak was reported in Harbin in 2010, when two men fled Liming Prison, though both were recaptured within a few weeks.
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