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Fugitive drug kingpin Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman suffered injuries while trying to escape as authorities closed in on him, Mexican officials said.
Guzman broke out of prison through an underground tunnel in July, and has been on the run since then.
In a statement Friday, officials said intelligence pointed them to focus on northwestern Mexico.
Mexican officials said they launched an operation in the area, prompting the kingpin to make a hurried escape that left him with injuries on his face and one leg.
Authorities did not provide specifics on the date and exact location of the operation, or how he got injured.
"It is important to note that these injuries were not the result of a direct confrontation," the statement said.
Down a hole
Mexico's most notorious drug lord stepped into a shower in July. He slipped through a hole in the shower stall and into a tunnel that led out of the maximum-security Altiplano Federal Prison, authorities said then.
The opening connected to a vertical passageway that was outfitted with a ladder and led to another tunnel that had tracks for a modified motorcycle.
It's unclear how or where Guzman went, but authorities have indicated that at some point during his escape, a pilot flew him farther from the prison.
"El Chapo," whose nickname means "short" in Spanish, seemed to have vanished into thin air.
Source: CNN
