A criminal suspect suspicious of having damaged a railway trunk was seized Monday in East China's Fujian Province one day after the Chinese police issued a hue and cry nationwide.

Wu Guochang was captured in Fujian's Jianyang Monday afternoon after the railway police received information from an owner of a local salvage station.

Wu was then working in the salvage station with a fake ID card using the name of Li Songchang.

Wu has made a confession to what he has committed, according to railway police sources.

In the hue and cry, Wu, nicknamed "watermelon skin", 42, is suspected of committing the crime of destructing railroad on March 24 in the Jiangxi section of the Beijing-Kowloon railway, a key passenger and cargo rail trunk in China, and attempting to get a passenger train derailed.

Wu is also suspected of being involved in a series of arson cases in Jiande City of East China's Zhejiang Province, also his hometown.

Wu escaped by a red gasoline-fueled bicycle soon after committing the crime in Ji'an, a city in East China's Jiangxi Province, according to the Ministry of Public Security.

The ministry Sunday night dispatched an A-class hue and cry with a reward of 300,000 yuan (37,500 U.S. dollars).

The publication of Wu's photo and a sketched portrait is believed helpful to his capture.

Source: Xinhua