IS hostage-takers killed as Russian prison siege ends: authorities
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Moscow: Russian authorities said Sunday that they had brought a siege at a prison in the southern Rostov region to a swift end, killing the Islamic St...
Moscow: Russian authorities said Sunday that they had brought a siege at a prison in the southern Rostov region to a swift end, killing the Islamic State hostage-takers and freeing their two prison guard captives unharmed.
The prison service had earlier reported that the two guards had been taken hostage by an unspecified number of Islamic State detainees and had entered negotiations for their release.
But a short time later it issued a statement saying the siege had ended: "During a special operation...the criminals were liquidated and the employees who were taken hostage were released and were not injured."
No further details were released in the immediate aftermath of the drama at Detention Centre 1 in the Rostov region.
A police source told state news agency TASS that IS members who were due to appear in court on terrorism charges were among the hostage-takers.
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