A criminal who was on the run for the last 17 years has been recaptured by Chinese police. They arrested the fugitive after using drones to spot his cave hideout. The 63-year old man had been jailed for trafficking women and children.

The man who has been named Song Jiang by the police had been living in a tiny cave cut off from human interaction for years.

Yongshan police received clues about Song’s whereabouts in early September and used them to track him in the mountains behind his hometown in Yunnan province in south-west China.