Mexican drug lord Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman has escaped from a maximum-security prison for the second time in 14 years, sparking a massive manhunt on Sunday and dealing an embarrassing blow to the Government.The kingpin was last spotted by security cameras entering the shower area of the Altiplano prison, 90 kilometres west of Mexico City, on Saturday night before disappearing, the National Security Commission said. An alarm was issued after “he was not visible” for a while and his cell was empty, the commission said in a statement in the early hours of on Sunday.
“An operation to locate him was deployed in the area and on roads of neighbouring states,” it said, adding that flights were suspended at the nearby Toluca airport.