Video shows drug lord Guzman's daring shower escape

Mexico City

Mexican drug lord Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman paced nervously in his cell before bending down behind his shower's short wall and vanishing, according to newly released security footage of his daring jailbreak.

While the video released late Tuesday shows Guzman walking back and forth three times before crouching into the shower with his prison garb on, National Security Commissioner Monte Alejandro Rubido said it was normal behavior for prison inmates.

The small hole on the shower floor that Guzman slipped into late Saturday is not seen in the close-circuit camera, which is monitored 24 hours a day. It also does not show the moment he takes off a monitoring bracelet.

A surveillance camera was on the top corner of a wall outside the cell and another inside pointing toward the shower, but authorities said they had two blind spots to protect the inmate's privacy.Rubido said Guzman was last seen at 8:52 pm, without indicating how long it took for prison guards to sound the alarm.

Guzman's second escape from a maximum-security prison in 14 years is a huge embarrassment to President Enrique Pena Nieto's administration, which had celebrated the capture of the world's most wanted drug baron just 17 months ago.