Chinese police arrested the emaciated man earlier this month.Chinese police have used drones to track down a human trafficker on the run for 17 years, finding him holed up in a tiny mountain cave.
In a post on their WeChat account, local police in the south-western province of Yunnan identified the man as Moujiang Song.
The 63-year-old, who had been prosecuted for the abduction and trafficking of women and children, escaped a prison camp in neighbouring Sichuan province in March 2002, Yongshan police said.
Police said isolation had made it hard for Song to communicate.Officers said they tracked Song to mountains close to his hometown, having received clues about his whereabouts earlier this month.
Due to the difficulty of the terrain, they deployed several drones, finding the runaway’s cave hideout on September 19.
Police were provided clues to the location of Song’s mountain hideout earlier in September.A group of plain-clothed police moved in to arrest him, finding Song unkempt and emaciated in the bolthole, measuring a mere 2 square metres.
He was unable to communicate clearly with the officers, police said.
They said Song’s hair had turned grey after 17 years on the run.
He would “pay for his crimes”, they said.
