COCAINE kingpin El Chapo's nephew was filmed spraying a nightclub with bullets and injuring one person - before terrified cops let him go free.

       Aureliano 'El Guanito' Guzmán Araujo was captured in shocking CCTV footage opening fire at revellers in the Culiacán City, Mexico before scarpering last Friday.

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       'El Guanito' opened fire in a bar in Culiacán, Mexico 4

       He and his accomplices fled after police said they were outnumbered 4

       El Chapo was recaptured in 2016 and extradited to the US Credit: Reuters

       Guzmán, the youngest son of Aureliano ‘El Guano’ Guzmán Loera, let off at least eight shots and then aimed his gun at another individual in the area.

       Another member of Guanito's party fired at least two more shots and another man could be seen pointing his gun towards the crowd as customers scrambled for safety.

       One man was wounded in the leg and face. The extent of his injuries are unknown.

       Additional video footage shows three men confronted by the police outside the bar and being instructed by one of the individuals to stand down and lower their weapons.

       According to Mexican media, police even helped the gunmen to escape, arguing that it was in order to keep the public safe and keep the peace.

       Guzmán and the rest of the group then sped off in five vehicles.

       Sinaloa state security chief Cristóbal Casta？eda said that the police officers, who were patrolling the area aboard four motorcycles, allowed Guzmán and the other gunmen to leave the scene because they were outnumbered.

       The cops and a backup unit initiated a pursuit, but were unable to make any arrests.

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       In a previous attempt by Mexican police to bring justice to the drug lords, while arresting the son of El Chapo, Ovidio Guzmán López, his henchmen fought back resulting in at least eight people reportedly being killed and 21 wounded.

       A patrol of 30 soldiers was said to have detained him and three other men in a home in the neighbourhood of Tres Ríos. But even as they celebrated the arrest, the patrol came under attack.

       Thugs circled the house where Ovidio was being held and ruthlessly fired machine guns at the security forces and cops for 20 minutes while the cartel deployed henchmen sitting on the back of trucks burning vehicles and homes in the neighbourhood.

       Mexican media outlets have reported that El Guano and El Chapo's four sons, known as 'Los Chapitos,' have been involved in an internal conflict over the control of the Sinaloa Cartel since the feared drug lord's extradition to the United States, where he is serving a life sentence.

       El Guanito, his wife, Giselle Zepeda López, and five other people were taken into custody in October 2015 while the military was in pursuit of El Chapo in the Sinaloa municipality of Tierra Blanca.

       And El Guano is wanted by Mexican authorities for reportedly orchestrating the September 29, 2016, ambush that left six soldiers dead and 10 people, including a paramedic, wounded after his henchmen freed Julio óscar Ortiz Vega following his arrest in the Sinaloa municipality of Badiraguato.

       However, they were all released from jail months later after authorities determined there wasn’t enough evidence to charge them with any crime.

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       El Guanito and his gang were seen fleeing in cars into the night