After he had escaped from prison, the police stayed in hiding for 17 years.

Police in China have used a fear of finding and arresting a convicted human traffickers who had been on the run for 17 years.

According to foreign media, Telegrafi records, it was Yongshan police who said in a statement that numerous attempts to capture Song Jiang, 63, had failed.

They received information about his whereabouts earlier this month, which took them to the mountains behind his homeland in the Yunnan province of southern China.

The teams came out looking for Song in what police described as complex terrain and dense vegetation, but found no trace of it, so they demanded fear of the local police authority to seek a possible hiding from above.

And as they were doing their research, a fear spotted a blue steel roof on a steep rock. He also discovered domestic waste outside what police described as a cave.

When the search teams moved to the beginning of September, they found “an old” in front of the cave and identified him as the elusive Song, who was imprisoned for trafficking of women and children, but escaped prison in 2002.

Police said Song had lived in a cave with less than 21 square meters of size than very small for an average person to get up.

Photos from inside the cave, published by police, showed dark cooking vessels, which seem to have been used to make food on an open fire and layer of bed improvised on the cave floor.

Investigators said the fugitive lived in solitary confinement for a while and had trouble communicating with the officers after having not talked to anyone for a long time.

They said Song didn't shower or did the laundry in a long “ ”, and his lifestyle had “destroyed his body.

He also cut his hair, used plastic bottles to get drinking water from a mountain valley, and gathered branches of dried trees for cooking fires.

After that, Song was sent to prison again, police said.