Two Russian penitentiary police officers were taken hostage by some prisoners belonging to the Islamic State (IS) in a detention center in the Rostov region, in southern Russia. This was announced today by the Russian penitentiary administration. “Detainees in one of the cells of detention center number 1 of the Rostov region took two prison officers hostage,” it said in a statement. Negotiations for the release of the hostages are underway, the note further specifies.
According to what the “Tass” agency reports on its website, there are six detainees and they have captured an operational agent and an inspector. The kidnapping would have been planned for some time by the prisoners who are usually located in different cells, but who at the time of the capture were together in the courtyard for the hour of exercise. The kidnappers are armed with pocket knives, a rubber truncheon and a fire axe, as reported to “Tass” by the police. One of the captured officers would eventually be handcuffed.
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