MEXICO CITY (Sputnik) — Mexican authorities are ready to pay 60 million Mexican pesos (almost $4 million) for information on the whereabouts of escaped Mexican drug lord El Chapo, Attorney General of Mexico Arely Gomez said at a press conference.
On Sunday, Joaquin Guzman, also known as El Chapo, or "Shorty," escaped from a maximum security prison in Mexico through a 1.5-kilometer (0.6-mile) tunnel leading to shower cells.
"The Prosecutor General's Office offers 60 million pesos to a person or people, who will provide us with information leading to the detection and detention of Joaquin Guzman Loera," Gomez said Monday.
Undated handout photograph of drug lord Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman distributed by Mexico's Attorney General's Office July 13, 2015.
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Five more people reportedly escaped with El Chapo.
Guzman was imprisoned in February 2014. In 2001, he escaped from another Mexican maximum security prison in a laundry cart, after spending eight years in custody.
