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Details of how the most feared drug lord escaped maximum security prison for the second time

Mexico: Narcotics kingpin Joaquin Guzman, nicknamed El Chapo or Shorty, got out through an elaborate mile-long tunnel under Altiplano prison on Saturday night.

The $1billion kingpin broke free from the high security jail on Saturday night - and a new video shows the mouth of the tunnel, as well as the abandoned building where the passage ends.

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