A video released Monday shows the raid that recaptured Mexican drug lord Joaquín Guzmán Loera, known as “El Chapo,” last week.

The footage was recorded on Mexican military personnel’s helmet cameras and documented an exchange of gunfire, falling debris and a team of troops moving around the safe house in the early morning raid.

From Univision:

–Posted by Roisin Davis

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