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Mexico celebrations over 'El Chapo' capture mask a near escape

For a few frantic hours after a bloody shootout in northwest Mexico on Friday, Mexican security forces lost track of notorious drug lord Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman as they chased him through a sewer. He had slipped the net yet again.

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