ISIS prisoners at a faraway Russian jail staged an tried rise up Friday that left 8 lifeless, officers stated.
The 4 terrorists had been gunned indisposed via snipers on the IK-19 Surovikino facility within the southwestern Volgograd patch then they took 4 inmates and 8 jail guards hostage — fatally stabbing 4 of the guards, in line with the Federal Jail Provider (FSIN).
3 alternative guards had been hospitalized with accidents.
Particular pressure snipers “neutralized” the inmates, who known themselves as Islamic Condition militants, with “four precise shots,” the company claims.
Movies that purportedly got here from the scene display the knife-wielding attackers pacing in a jail backyard with their sufferers laid in swimming pools of blood.
Some shouted that they had been appearing to avenge the persecution of Muslims.
The tried coup started right through a disciplinary fee assembly, BBC reported, mentioning FSIN.
Some native experiences point out the jail’s director and deputy director had been amongst the ones seized.
The lifeless assailants had been known as Ramzidin Toshev, 28, Rustamchon Navruzi, 23, Nazirchon Toshov, 28, and Temur Khusinov, 29. All had been from former Soviet Central Asian nations, native media mentioned.
The FSIN denied that the attackers had taken keep watch over of all of the jail, pronouncing: “The criminals took hostages and occupied one single room on the territory of the colony.”
The rebellion is the second one such incident this summer season — six ISIS prisoners took two guards captive at a facility within the neighboring Rostov patch. 5 had been killed and the survivor was once sentenced to two decades.
IK-19 Surovikino is a high-security penal colony that has a folk of about 1,200 inmates.
With Publish wires
