El Chapo 'is suffering from injuries' after showdown with Mexican marines last week

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Cartel boss El Chapo escaped from high security Mexican jail back in July
Last week U.S. drug police intercepted data from his mobile phone
Mexican marines sent to get him but got caught in a vicious gun battle
El Chapo escaped, but is now reported to have face and leg wounds

Published: 15:27 EST, 16 October 2015 | Updated: 00:27 EST, 17 October 2015

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Escaped cartel kingpin 'El Chapo' Guzman who evaded capture by Mexican marines when they cornered him last week is suffering from face and leg injuries, it has been reported.

Guzman, Mexico's most wanted man, has been hunted by the government for the last four months since he broke out of Altiplano prison through an underground tunnel.

Last week he was traced to a ranch in Cosala, in the Sierra Madre mountains, after U.S. agents tacked his phone, but he slipped the net when marines sent to capture him came under fire.

However, according to NBC News, Guzman didn't escape the clash unscathed and is thought to have suffered face and leg wounds.

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El Chapo Guzman (pictured during his arrest in 2014), was cornered by Mexican marines last week but escaped during a gunfight, though he is believed to have sustained face and leg wounds

Marines tracked Guzman to the Sierra Madre mountains after U.S. drug agents intercepted data from his phone, but the kingpin slipped the net (pictured, marines clear marijuana from the same mountains in 2009)

The marines first approached Guzman's supposed hideaway be helicopter, but were forced to retreat after coming under fire from people believed to be his guards.

They later launched another assault on foot, but by the time they arrived, the notorious leader of the Sinaloa Cartel was gone.

Instead they found only medication, cell phones used to trace them, and two-way radios.

After Guzman's escape troops shut off 13 communities from Jesus Maria – 30 miles north of the state's capital Culiacan – to the nearby states of Durango and Chihuahua, in order to search for him.

Hundreds of troops were said to have flooded the area and many locals fled their homes, however the search for the crime boss has shown up nothing since.

Guzman's gang are in control of the vast northwest region he is hiding in, meaning there is likely no shortage of people willing to assist him, either through loyalty or fear.

He is the billionaire boss of the powerful Sinaloa Cartel, and was locked up after his capture by security forces in northwestern Mexico in February 2014.

Until then, Guzman had been on the run from another prison break he staged in 2001 after he was carried to freedom, hidden inside a laundry basket.

Guzman escaped for a second time on July 11 this year after his cartel's engineering unit created a mile-long tunnel leading under the jail.

Emerging underneath the shower in his cell, CCTV shows El Chapo escaping into it through a hatch hidden in his shower before feeling to gang territory.

El Chapo was arrested in 2014 after 13 years on the run, and was locked in Altiplano prison, though managed to escape after cartel members dug a tunnel under his cell (pictured, El Chapo shortly before he escaped)

El Chapo fled down the tunnel (pictured), which was equipped with air vents, oxygen tanks and even a motorbike mounted on rails to allow for a quick getaway

The tunnel itself was equipped with lights, air vents, and even a motorbike mounted on rails to reduce the time needed to get away.

At the other end of the tunnel, which surfaced in the middle of a building site, a pile of clothes was left waiting for him, allowing him to blend in with the public after escaping.

After his break-out. El Chapo bragged about spending $50million bribing prison guards to turn a blind eye while he made his getaway.

The boss of the prison has since been fired, while it was revealed that all the wardens supposed to be watching him on the night in question were forced to take an hour break as he escaped.

CCTV officers charged with watching Guzman's cell were also caught playing Solitaire on their monitors, leaving the cameras unattended as he slipped into his escape tunnel.

Yesterday audio from the cameras was released for the first time, showing that there was a loud banging noise coming from the shower in the moments before Guzman fled.

The billionaire drug boss can even be heard turning up the volume on a TV device on his bed in an attempt to drown the noise out, but guards failed to notice.

It was more than 20 minutes before anyone checked Guzman's cell and found him gone, and another nine minutes before officers got in and chased him.

The tunnel emerged in the middle of a building site (pictured), where a change of clothes was waiting. El Chapo then fled to his cartel's territory, in Mexico's northwest, where he is now hiding

El Chapo's escape has been humiliating for Mexico's president Pena Nieto, and authorities have been desperately trying to track him down ever since (pictured)

The incident has been a huge embarrassment for Mexican president Enrique Pena Nieto, especially given the presviour escape of El Chapo.

Critics said Pena Nieto should have handed over Guzman 'to US law enforcement officials given Mexico's past record with the capo'.

The government had resisted doing so, citing national sovereignty, but since his jailbreak has appeared to change its stance on extradition.

At the start of the month Mexico extradited two high-ranking alleged drug lords to the United States - the most prominent to be handed over since Guzman's escape.

The two men, Edgar 'La Barbie' Valdez and Gulf Cartel capo Jorge Costilla, were among 13 defendants wanted for various violent crimes and drug trafficking-related offenses.

Following Guzman's jailbreak, the Mexican government revealed it had received an extradition request from the United States for the Sinaloa boss, who was the most wanted drug lord in the world before his capture in February 2014.