A prisoner who was on death reprieve today escaped from a jail in south China, second jailbreak reported in less than two months in the country.
A spokesman of China's Guangdong provincial prison management said two inmates left the workshop when others were working and climbed over prison walls for escape.
One of them was knocked down by electrified fence and recaptured, while another one got out of the Beijiang Prison in Shaoguan City.
The fugitive, Li Mengjun, is convicted of robbery and is on death reprieve, according to the city's public security bureau.
Police officers are hunting down Li and have promised to issue cash rewards for information leading to his capture, state-run Xinhua news agency reported.
In early September, three inmates escaped a detention centre and allegedly killed a guard in northeastern Chinese province of Heilongjiang.
