Mexican drug lord Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman will be taken back to the maximum-security prison from where he escaped six months ago, the attorney general said Friday following his recapture.

"Guzman Loera will be taken again to the Altiplano" prison, some 90 kilometers (55 miles) west of Mexico City, Attorney General Arely Gomez said before Guzman was hauled by troops into a military helicopter in front to TV cameras.