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QUETTA, Pakistan, Oct 9 (Reuters) - Nine men on death row escaped from prison in southwestern Pakistan on Wednesday but one of the convicts was captured soon after, a jail official said.

The nine broke out of their cell, overpowered a guard in a watch tower at the jail in Baluchistan province and descended a prison wall using a rope tied together from pieces of cloth, deputy superintendent Mashooq Hussain told Reuters.

He said officers chased and arrested one of them. "The remaining eight disappeared into the surrounding hills."

The prison, Central Maach Jail, is 80 km (50 miles) east of the provincial capital Quetta and was built by the British in a coal mining area of Bolan Pass.

Hussain said all eight escapees were convicted for various crimes including murder, kidnapping and robbery, but their death warrants had not yet been issued.

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