One of the soldiers tasked with guarding Mexican drug kingpin Joaquín 'El Chapo' Guzman has been found dead.
The BBC reports that the body of 20-year old Jorge Mauricio Melendez Herrera was found on Friday, June 10, in Ciudad Juarez.
Herrera had been stabbed multiples times. His body also showed signs of torture. A forensic expert ruled that he died from a blow to the back of the head.
Mexican authorities have been moving El Chapo frequently to different prisons in an effort to make it more difficult for the Sinaloa Cartel leader to escape again after he was recaptured in January 2016.
El Chapo has escaped twice from maximum security prisons in Mexico. He eluded capture for 13-years after a worker wheeled him out of a facility in a laundry basket onto a truck on January 19, 2001.
On July 12, 2015, the man who made the Forbes 2013 billionaires list, slipped out of his cell into an elaborately built tunnel to freedom.
Melendez Herrera was part of a team of 300 soldiers that have guarded the outside of a Ciudad Juarez prison where El Chapo is currently held as he appeals a U.S. extradition.
The facility is just across the Rio Grande from El Paso, Texas.
Authorities are investigating Melendez Herrera's death.
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