Fugitive surrenders
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An official government statement said Orlando Patricio Dominguez de la Coba left the mission 'voluntarily'on Monday night.
Cuba's foreign ministry had asked the Canadian embassy to hand over Dominguez de la Coba. It said he was serving a 30-year prison sentence for the violent kidnapping of two U.S. tourists in 1983.
The one-armed fugitive climbed over the embassy wall and sought political asylum on Friday while being taken to a nearby clinic to be fitted with an artificial limb.
The Cuban foreign ministry said one of his arms had to be amputated because he had injected his arms with oil stolen from a prison workshop to make himself ill.
