Death row escapee recaptured after 42 years on the run

Vo Van Ba at the police station in southern Can Tho City. Photo courtesy of Can Tho City Police Department

A prisoner who was on death row in a jail before escaping has finally been arrested in southern Dong Nai province, after living as a fugitive for 42 years.

The prisoner, named Vo Van Ba, was jailed for rape and murder and sentenced to death while he was being held in southern Hau Giang Province in 1977.

While he was waiting for execution on October 3, 1980, he broke out of his cell at dawn and ran away.

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