Police guard a drainage pipe outside Altiplano maximum security prison in Mexico following a high profile escape

Mexican policeman with gun in pipe

Police guard a drainage pipe outside Altiplano maximum security prison in Mexico, on Sunday.

The country’s most powerful drug lord, Joaquín ‘El Chapo’ Guzmán Loera, escaped the prison on Saturday through a specially dug tunnel more than 30ft underground that led to an empty building on a construction site nearly a mile away.

The drug lord and the Sinaloa Cartel, which he heads, are known for building sophisticated tunnel systems to transport drugs across the US/Mexico border.

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