Life convict escape from prison in China

A 27-year-old prisoner serving life sentence has escaped from a jail in southwest China's Yunnan Province.
Zhang Lincang, was sentenced to life imprisonment for transporting drugs, and started his sentence in January 2017 at the No.1 Prison in Yunnan.
"Zhang left the site where inmates were working at around 8:20 AM Tuesday, stole a truck, broke through the separation net at the prison and fled," the provincial prison administration said.
He abandoned the truck on a road 2 kilometers from the prison. The prison immediately reported the escape to higher authorities, state-run Xinhua news agency reported.