{Sinaloa cartel boss, who had escaped from maximum-security prison six months ago, caught after shootout in home state.}<\/p>\n
Mexican police have recaptured Joaquin Guzman six months after the fugitive drug kingpin’s escape from prison.<\/p>\n
Guzman, the head of the powerful Sinaloa cartel, was Mexico’s most-wanted fugitive. He had escaped from a maximum security prison six months ago.<\/p>\n
“Mission accomplished, we have him,” Enrique Pena Nieto, Mexico’s president, announced via Twitter on Friday.<\/p>\n
Guzman, also known as El Chapo, was caught after a shootout with security forces in Los Mochis, in his home state of Sinaloa, according to a federal official.<\/p>\n
The official said Guzman was taken alive and was not wounded. Five people were killed and one Mexican marine injured in the clash at a house.<\/p>\n
The Mexican navy said marines seized two armoured vehicles, eight rifles, a handgun, and a grenade launcher in the raid that recaptured the fugitive.<\/p>\n
“A few weeks ago there was a close call in his home state of Sinaloa, this morning not so lucky,” Al Jazeera’s Natasha Ghoneim, reporting from Ahuisculco in Mexico, said.<\/p>\n
“The Mexican government is saying that this morning military responded to a building in Sinaloa after someone compliant that armed men were holding up inside a building.”<\/p>\n
In a statement, the US Drug Enforcement Agency said: “The capture of Joaquin ‘Chapo’ Guzman-Loera is a victory for the rule of law and the Mexican people and government.<\/p>\n
“It is further evidence of our two countries’ resolve to ensure justice is served for families who have been plagued by Guzman-Loera’s ruthless acts of violence.”<\/p>\n
His prison escape in July was the second for Guzman in 15 years – and a major embarrassment for Pena Nieto.<\/p>\n
Escape stories<\/p>\n
Guzman was first captured in 1993 in Guatemala, but he escaped from a prison in western Mexico in 2001 by hiding in a laundry cart.<\/p>\n
In July 2015, he fled a maximum-security prison near Mexico City just 17 months after authorities captured him following a 13-year manhunt.<\/p>\n
He escaped through a 1.5km tunnel with a redesigned motorcycle on special tracks, emerging in a house outside the prison.<\/p>\n
Nieto had refused to hand Guzman over to the US, but Mexican authorities are now likely to extradite him there.<\/p>\n
Source:Al Jazeera:[Mexico recaptures fugitive drug kingpin El Chapo->http:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/news\/2016\/01\/mexico-recaptures-notorious-druglord-el-chapo-160108183908621.html]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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