Hohhot jail-breakers captured

• Source: Global Times
• [12:38 October 20 2009]
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Four jail-breakers who escaped from the No. 2 Prison of Hohhot, Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region at about 2:30 pm Saturday, were recaptured by Hohhot police in Helingeer county, Hohhot. One of the escapees was shot dead.

The four inmates were in prison and were either sentenced to death or life imprisonment. Soon after they escaped, the Prison Management Bureau in Inner Mongolia, which supervises the prison, issued arrest warrants and released photos of the four escapees.

The prisoners, who were doing routine labor at the time of their escape, killed a correctional officer and wounded a security guard, before managing to flee westward in a taxi they commandeered on the street, officials said.