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Armed police are still hunting a man who broke out of Hebei jail.

The prison management authority has offered a 100,000-yuan ($15,600) reward to anyone that helps the police capture a prisoner who escaped from a jail near Gaoguzhuang village in North China's Hebei province on Sunday morning.

Also, anyone providing information that leads to his capture will receive a reward of 20,000 yuan, a publicity department official with the jail said on Wednesday.

"Only one prisoner escaped at 6:15 am on Sept 11. Police are still hunting him," an official said.

The male convict, Wang Zhenqing, 43, from neighboring Henan province, began a 10-year sentence for theft at the No 3 Hebei Jail in January 2011, according to the jail's official.

The official declined to say whether the man was the only prisoner who attempted to escape and if he managed to sneak out or forced his way out.

"No one was hurt in the jail break and everything has gone back to normal," she said. "This is all we can disclose at the moment."

The jail mainly houses and rehabilitates felons convicted of serious crimes.

Pang Huiwu, an official with Hebei Prison Management Bureau, said there have been few prison breaks in recent years.

In March 2008, prisoner Xie Wanli hijacked a truck crane at a jail in Hebei and rammed open the anti-riot gates and two other gates before crushing through a wall.

Xie was later caught by police and sentenced to life in jail.

In March 2009, two prisoners sawed open steel nets covering a sewer at a jail in Hanzhong city, Shaanxi province. They were sentenced to life in jail after police tracked them down in Weinan and Xi'an.

In October 2009, four prisoners killed a police officer and cut off another's finger in order to open the identity lock in Hohhot, the Inner Mongolia autonomous region. Three were caught and one was killed resisting arrest.

（中國日報網英語點津 Helen 編輯）

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