[MUST SEE] Watch the dramatic video of El Chapo’s capture

It’s seems like a script straight out of Hollywood. But it’s very real.

See the raw, heart-stopping video of the gun fight between Mexican marines and Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman’s henchmen that ended with the drug lords recapture.

Operation Black Swan started at 4:40 a.m. Friday in a central neighborhood of the Pacific coast city of Los Mochis. That’s when 17 heavily armed Mexican marines began their assault on a safe house, thinking there was a good chance “El Chapo” was inside.

One marine was wounded by gunfire almost immediately and remained outside the front door while his comrades slowly advanced inside behind lobbed grenades and heavy fire, according to video from the marines’ helmet cameras released by Mexico’s government on Monday.

A marine involved in the assault who gave a tour of the house to a reporter from the Mexican network Televisa said there were more people inside than expected and they were more heavily armed, including with rocket-propelled grenades and .50 caliber sniper rifles.

Attorney General Arely Gomez told local radio that people in the house had ordered food for 13 people the night before the raid.

An Associated Press journalist who visited the house Monday saw bullet holes pocking its white concrete walls. Clothing and food — a wheel of cheese, lots of cans — were scattered throughout. Beds were tossed. Blood was smeared on the walls.

The marines had secured the downstairs rooms first.

 

It took about 15 minutes to secure the house. Then the marines followed the attackers across rooftops. Four more gunmen were killed in this pursuit.

There had been no sighting of Guzman.

But knowing his predilection for tunnels, the marines began looking for an opening. Beside a ground floor bedroom littered with clothing, marines entered a walk-in closet and found an unusual panel behind a mirror. Guides showed the AP how a lever hidden behind a ceiling light operated a mechanism that opened a door behind the mirror.

It led to a set of descending stairs.

A 6-foot (nearly 2-meter) tall tunnel complete with lighting, wood-paneled walls and a concrete floor led to more stairs and then a metal hatch opened into the city’s storm sewer. Guzman and his security chief traveled several blocks through the 3-foot (meter) tall storm sewer before popping out in the middle of an intersection. They stole a car, drove a bit, then stole another.

Federal police eventually found them on a highway outside of town and Guzman’s flight ended six months after his stunning escape from the same maximum security prison where he now sits.

The Associated Press contributed to this article