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| Watch the moment drug lord Joaquin 'El Chapo' Guzman casually escapes from his prison cell | |
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| The Mexican government has released footage of the moment one of the world's most powerful drug lords escaped his maximum security prison cell. | The Mexican government has released footage of the moment one of the world's most powerful drug lords escaped his maximum security prison cell. |
| Grainy footage taken from the prison's security cameras shows Joaquin 'El Chapo' Guzman pacing his prison cell before crouching down in the cell's shower area and eventually disappearing from sight. | Grainy footage taken from the prison's security cameras shows Joaquin 'El Chapo' Guzman pacing his prison cell before crouching down in the cell's shower area and eventually disappearing from sight. |
| A low partition wall blocks the view of his escape route - a roughly 50cm (20 inch) by 50cm hole that is the entrance to a tunnel dug under the prison. | A low partition wall blocks the view of his escape route - a roughly 50cm (20 inch) by 50cm hole that is the entrance to a tunnel dug under the prison. |
| Mexican National Security Commissioner Monte Alejandro Rubido, said the blind spot was designed to permit Guzman some privacy while he was washing. | Mexican National Security Commissioner Monte Alejandro Rubido, said the blind spot was designed to permit Guzman some privacy while he was washing. |
| Guzman escaped from Altiplano prison on Saturday, apparently down a mile-long tunnel that linked his cell to a partially-finished building on a construction site close to the prison. | Guzman escaped from Altiplano prison on Saturday, apparently down a mile-long tunnel that linked his cell to a partially-finished building on a construction site close to the prison. |
| The tunnel contained a modified motorcycle on tracks to guide it that Guzman may have used to traverse the tunnel. | The tunnel contained a modified motorcycle on tracks to guide it that Guzman may have used to traverse the tunnel. |
| Journalists who visited the site reported the track ends two or three steps from the base of a wooden ladder with 17 rungs that he would have scrambled up into a basement, and then another ladder rising into the building. | Journalists who visited the site reported the track ends two or three steps from the base of a wooden ladder with 17 rungs that he would have scrambled up into a basement, and then another ladder rising into the building. |
| Experts have said it would have taken more than a year to plan and build the tunnel. | Experts have said it would have taken more than a year to plan and build the tunnel. |
| Guzman's escape is the second time the drug lord has managed a successful prison break. In 2001 he escaped in a laundry cart and remained on the run for nearly four years. | Guzman's escape is the second time the drug lord has managed a successful prison break. In 2001 he escaped in a laundry cart and remained on the run for nearly four years. |
| (Additional report by agencies) | (Additional report by agencies) |