Bound and gagged Chinese women makes dramatic escape from kidnapper
Police in western China have detained a man on suspicion of kidnapping after a woman made a dramatic escape.
A hospital security guard in Ziyang, a city in Sichuan province, told Jiemian.com he heard a loud cry of “catch that robber” on Tuesday morning and ran to help.
He saw a red car parked near an ATM machine and a woman, whose hands and feet had been bound and her mouth gagged lying on the ground.
She had been found by a local pensioner who had called out for help.
The pair untied her and called the police before taking her to hospital where she was treated for shock.
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Police in Yanjiang district said in a statement on Tuesday evening the woman was about to drive out of a car park when a man climbed into the back of the car, overpowered her and tied her up.
She made her escape when the man had stopped at an ATM and tried to withdraw some money.
Police said early Wednesday morning that, after 14 hours of “continuous work and close monitoring”, a 32-year-old man, surnamed Ren, was detained in Yanjiang around 10pm on Tuesday.
The statement added that Ren admitted to the crime after interrogation.
The woman’s escape comes almost a year after another kidnap victim in Sichuan escaped in similar circumstances. In that case a woman from Chengdu, the provincial capital, was abducted in a car park and tied up but managed to escape while the car was stuck in rush-hour traffic.
The kidnapper was arrested a day later.
The number of abduction cases in China is not publicly available but prosecutions for violent crimes, including murder and kidnapping, dropped by 5.9 per cent in 2018 to 59,717, according to the Supreme People's Procuratorate annual report.
A spokesman for the procuratorate said the booming economy had changed the nature of crime in China, with offences such as telecom fraud rising while violent crime fell.
This article appeared in the South China Morning Post print edition as: Gagged woman escapes from kidnapper
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