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“This is unacceptable,” Sisolak said in a statement.

Officials did not realize until Tuesday morning Porfirio Duarte-Herrera was missing during a head count at the Southern Desert Correctional Center near Las Vegas. A statement from the state Department of Corrections said search teams were looking for him.

Duarte-Herrera, from Nicaragua, was convicted in 2010 of killing a hot dog vendor using a motion-activated bomb in a coffee cup on top of a parked car in the Luxor hotel-casino.

Records show his co-accused, Omar Rueda-Denvers, remained in custody on Tuesday. The 47-year-old Guatemalan is serving a life sentence in another Nevada prison for murder, attempted murder, explosives and other charges.

A Clark County District Court jury spared both men the death penalty in the murder of Willebaldo Dorantes Antonio, whom prosecutors have identified as the boyfriend of Rueda-Denvers’ ex-girlfriend.

Prosecutors said jealousy was the motive for the attack on the upper deck of a two-story car park. The explosion initially raised fears of a terrorist attack in the strip.

Officials described Duarte-Herrera as 5-foot-4, 135 pounds, with brown eyes and brown hair.

Sisolak said his office has directed corrections officials to “conduct and complete a thorough investigation of this event as quickly as possible.”

“This type of security breach cannot be allowed and those responsible will be held accountable,” he said.