Two of three fugitives captured in China

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Press Trust of India Beijing
Last Updated : Sep 05 2014 | 3:10 PM IST
Chinese police have captured two of the three fugitives who had escaped from a detention centre in northeast China after killing a guard while authorities have suspended four policemen for the rare prison break in the country.
The suspended officers include head, deputy head and a police officer from the detention centre as well as a deputy head of the Yanshou county public security bureau in charge of the detention affairs, state-run Xinhua News Agency reported.
They will be investigated and dealt with according to the law, they said.
Li Haiwei, 29, who was suspected of intentional homicide, was captured by police on Wednesday night at Yushan Village.
Wang Damin, 35, who was suspected of causing intentional injury which resulted in death, was captured at XinSheng village yesterday.
Gao Yulun, 50, who was sentenced to death for intentional homicide, is still on the run.
A cash reward was announced by the police for any information leading to the capture of the three fugitives.
The reward for the three escapees rose to about USD 73,200 dollars after they were listed as Class-A wanted men by the Ministry of Public Security.
The reward for the capture of each fugitive was raised from 100,000 yuan (over USD 16000) to 150,000 yuan.
Surveillance video showed the three fugitives wearing police uniforms as they walked out of the gate of the detention zone.
The authorities did not say how the three inmates killed the guard, the report said.
A similar jailbreak was reported in Harbin in 2010. Two convicts in their 20s fled the city's Liming Prison, but were both caught within a few weeks.
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First Published: Sep 05 2014 | 3:10 PM IST

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