AFP/Mexico City

Mexico’s government has released a video showing fugitive drug lord Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman going into his prison cell’s shower and bending down behind a short dividing wall before disappearing.
While Guzman paced back and forth several times between the bathroom area and his bed before vanishing, National Security commissioner Monte Alejandro Rubido said it was common behaviour for prison inmates.
The small hole on the shower floor that Guzman, 58, slipped into for his daring escape late Saturday is not seen in the footage.
While a surveillance camera was on a corner outside the cell and another inside pointing toward the shower, authorities said they had two blind spots to protect the inmate’s privacy.
Rubido said Guzman was last seen at 8.52pm, 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.
While a massive manhunt for Guzman entered its fourth day, prosecutors formally detained 22 officials from the Altiplano prison outside Mexico City amid suspicions of an inside job. Twelve others held since Sunday were released. The video shows the diminutive Guzman - his nickname means “Shorty - walking toward his small bed from the bathroom.
He goes back toward the shower, returns to the bed, and back to the bathroom, bending down a first time behind the wall.
Guzman then sits on his bed and changes footwear before heading back to the shower for the last time and bending down. A towel on the dividing wall falls behind it.