Drug kingpin 'El Chapo' recaptured after shootout, car chase

Six months after his escape from a maximum security prison, the world's top drug lord, Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman, has been returned to the prison he escaped from. having led soldiers on a chase through storm drains before being recaptured by the Mexican authorities in a pre-dawn shootout on Friday, 

The head of the powerful Sinaloa Cartel was captured in a car after fleeing from a raid on a safe house through tunnels and drains in the city of Los Mochis, in his native northwestern state of Sinaloa.

"Mission accomplished: We've got him," tweeted the President Enrique Pena Nieto, triumphantly. "I want to inform all Mexicans that Joaquin Guzman Loera has been arrested."

Guzman now faces possible extradition to face trial in the United States, a process expected to take several months.

Guzman led a cartel that smuggled billions of dollars worth of cocaine, heroin, marijuana and methamphetamines into the United States and fought vicious turf wars with other Mexican gangs. He had once featured in the Forbes list of billionaires, .

He was caught early on Friday after Mexican marines raided the safe house, killing five and capturing six of Guzman's henchmen, before pursuing the drug lord through the city's storm drains, finally apprehending him after a car chase through the city