Detainees take pre-trial detention centre staff hostage in Russia’s Rostov – video
Pravda Ukraine
The detainees at SIZO-1 pre-trial detention centre in the Russian city of Rostov-on-Don have taken two officers of Russia’s Federal Penitentiary Service hostage, and riot police are on their way to the building.
Source: Kremlin-aligned Russian news agency RIA Novosti; Telegram channel Baza
Details: The prisoners, who are being held on “terrorist” charges, are reportedly armed with “fire axes and rubber batons”.
Baza reported that six detainees broke the window bars in their cell in the pre-trial detention centre and entered the duty station.
Lieutenant Colonel Oleksandr B., the head of the operational department, and a junior inspector of the duty unit are being held hostage.
Early reports indicate that the prisoners are demanding a car, weapons and the opportunity to leave the facility.
They also recorded several videos in which they claimed to be members of the ISIS terrorist organisation.
Riot police are now on the way to the Rostov pre-trial detention centre.
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