End of The Road: Mexican Drug Lord Joaquin Guzman Loera - alias ''El Chapo Has Been Recaptured.

Joaquin Guzman Loera - alias ''El Chapo.

After a second prison break in 15 years, Joaquin Guzman Loera - alias ''El Chapo has been recaptured. "The Mexican drug lord who made a brazen prison break through underground tunnels has been recaptured" the president announced on Twitter.

The drug lord "El Chapo" boss of a powerful Sinaloa cartel, was Mexico's most-wanted fugitive. The Mexican Navy said marines seized two armoured vehicles, eight rifles, a handgun and a grenade launcher in the raid that recaptured the fugitive.

The July prison escape was the second for Guzman in 15 years and a major embarrassment for Mexico's president. Mexican navy said in a statement that marines, acting on a tip, stormed into a home in the town of Los Mochis before dawn. They were fired on from inside the building. Five suspects were killed and six others arrested, according to the statement.

"El Chapo" was first captured in 1993 in Guatemala, but he escaped from a prison in western Mexico in 2001 by hiding in a laundry cart. In July 2015, Guzman fled a maximum-security prison near Mexico City just 17 months after authorities captured him following a 13-year manhunt.

He escaped through a 1.5Km tunnel with a redesigned motorcycle on special tracks, emerging in a house outside the prison. Nieto had refused to hand Guzman over to the United States, but Mexican authorities have now secured an arrest warrant to extradite him there.