'El Chapo fled through sewer pipe'

- The drug lord Joaquín 'El Chapo' Guzmán Friday fled through a sewer pipe when the Mexican police burst in on him. Agents could eventually arrest him when Guzmán in a car tried to move, according to the Mexican government Friday local time.

The arrest was a shootout with marines in advance. When shooting in the town of Los Mochis, in the province of Sinaloa in northwestern Mexico, five gang members were slain, six others were arrested.

Guzmán escaped in July for the second time from prison and continued despite a massive manhunt for months out of the hands of the police. A helicopter of the Navy took him Friday to the same prison where he escaped six months ago. El Chapo fled via a 1.5 kilometer long tunnel from the Altiplano maximum security prison in Almoloya de Juárez, near the capital, Mexico City.

According to Attorney General Arely Gómez Guzmán came to the police on the track because he wanted to make a film about his life. Before that he had been in touch with performers and producers. Partly because the police could locate El Chapo and eventually arrested.

El Chapo is the founder and leader of the Sinaloa drug cartel, which since about 1990 is considered the most powerful cartel in Mexico. He will be extradited to the United States, where several arrest warrants against them.