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PHOTOS: See inside El Chapo's prison escape tunnel

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Wednesday, July 15, 2015
Journalist climb a ladder to exit of the tunnel that according to authorities, drug lord Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman used to escape from the Altiplano maximum security prison
A journalist climbs a ladder to get out of the tunnel that according to authorities, drug lord Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman used to escape from the Altiplano maximum security prison
A motorcycle adapted to a rail sits in the tunnel under the half-built house where according to authorities, drug lord Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman made his escape
A motorcycle adapted to a rail is seen under the half-built house where drug lord Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman made his escape
A motorcycle adapted to a rail is seen under the half-built house where according to authorities, drug lord Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman made his escape through a tunnel
A journalist reports from the exit of the tunnel that according to authorities, drug lord Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman used to escape from the Altiplano maximum security prison
Journalists exit the tunnel where according to authorities drug lord Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman made his escape from the Altiplano maximum security prison in Almoloya
Yellow police tape surrounds the construction site where the exit of the tunnel, authorities claim was used by drug lord Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman to break out of prison
Yellow police tape surrounds the construction site where the exit of the tunnel, they claim was used by drug lord Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman to break out of prison.
The construction site where the exit of the tunnel, they claim was used by drug lord Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman to break out of the Altiplano maximum security prison.
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