HARBIN, Sept. 11 -- Police in northeast China's Heilongjiang Province have confirmed capture of Gao Yulun, the last of three escaped inmates, on Thursday afternoon.

The 50-year-old Gao was seized in Hefu Village, Yanshou County at around 5 p.m. on Thursday, nine days after he and another two inmates escaped a detention center and killed a guard on Sept. 2, said the Public Security Bureau of Harbin, the provincial capital.

Local police captured the other two runaways, Li Haiwei and Wang Damin, on Sept. 3 and Sept. 4 respectively.