The incident follows the same assault in a jail in Rostov-on-Don in June. The hostage-takers claimed to be a part of the Islamic State terrorist group.
Russian particular forces have killed 4 prisoners at a penal colony within the southwest of the nation who have been reported to have taken hostages and killed a member of employees.
The Nationwide Guard of Russia, the nation’s gendarmerie, introduced the operation on Friday after information emerged of the hostage scenario. All of the people taken have now been freed, it stated.
The incident occurred at penal colony 19 within the city of Surovikino, 130 kilometres west of Volgograd. Authorities haven’t but specified the precise variety of attackers, hostages and victims, and the data circulating on numerous Telegram channels differs extensively.
An express, unverified video circulating on a number of Russian social media channels reveals at the very least three assailants brandishing knives and standing over what look like injured or lifeless jail guards, mendacity in a pool of blood.
One of many hostage-takers states within the clip that the group is affiliated with the Islamic State (or Daesh). In accordance with a number of native channels, the attackers demanded a helicopter and $2 million (€1.8 million).
Russian media reported that the nation’s safety providers have been getting ready to storm the constructing.
Russian safety beneath pressure amid Ukraine warfare?
Russia has lately skilled a sequence of Islamist terrorist assaults, based on numerous media, elevating the query of whether or not its huge safety businesses have been stretched skinny by Moscow’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine and its subsequent inside crackdown on anti-war dissent.
An Afghan department of the Islamic State claimed duty for a mass capturing at a live performance corridor close to Moscow in March — the deadliest terrorist assault within the nation for years — which left at the very least 145 folks lifeless and 551 injured.
In June, a synagogue was attacked within the metropolis of Derbent, whereas an Orthodox church was focused by gunmen additional south, in Makhatchkala, Dagestan (North Caucasus). A minimum of 19 folks have been killed, together with an Orthodox priest and 15 policemen, based on the authorities, who denounced these as “terrorist acts”.
But extra questions on Russia’s jail safety measures have been raised when safety forces needed to storm a detention centre within the south of the nation, additionally in June, killing six inmates who had taken two employees members hostage. The prisoners included males who have been additionally accused of being linked to the Islamic State.
Extra sources • BBC, Meduza, The Guardian, Le Figaro
