Mexican authorities have arrested the brother-in-law of drug kingpin Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman, who broke out of prison in July, and a pilot who flew Guzman away, prosecutors said.
The pair were among six people detained in connection with Guzman's prison escape, Attorney General Arely Gomez told a news conference, adding they were people who worked on the outside.
Ms Gomez said the brother-in-law organised the 11 July escape, including the construction of a 1.5km tunnel leading to a hole in the shower of Guzman’s cell's in his prison in central Mexico State.
Guzman was then taken to the state of Queretaro, where the pilot, who has transported narcotics for Guzman's Sinaloa drug cartel, flew him to the region "where he has taken refuge," the chief prosecutor said.
While Ms Gomez did not say precisely where Guzman was flown to, her announcement came days after officials said marine special forces closed in on the 58-year-old fugitive during raids in the northwest of the country earlier this month, somewhere around his home state of Sinaloa and Durango.
Guzman managed to evade arrest but injured a leg and his face when he fell in the mountain terrain while fleeing, officials have told AFP.
Authorities have also detained more than a dozen prison officials over the escape, including the director of the Altiplano maximum security penitentiary and the national coordinator of the nation's jail system.
Guzman's jailbreak has deeply embarrassed President Enrique Pena Nieto's administration, which had scored a major victory when it captured him in February 2014 after a 13-year manhunt.
Guzman previously broke out of prison in 2001 by hiding in a laundry cart.
