Incident in Volgograd came about throughout assembly of jail’s disciplinary fee with ‘a number of prisoners’ concerned.
Russian inmates have taken workers hostage at a jail colony within the southern Volgograd area within the second such occasion since June, officers mentioned.
At the least one member of the jail workers was killed within the incident on Friday, state media reported.
“Throughout a session of a disciplinary fee, convicts took workers of the penal establishment as hostages,” Russia’s federal penitentiary service mentioned in an announcement.
“Measures are presently being taken to free the hostages. There are casualties,” the assertion added.
Russia’s investigative committee mentioned “a number of prisoners” have been concerned.
The IK-19 jail colony is positioned within the city of Surovikino, about 850km (530 miles) south of the capital, Moscow.
Movies revealed on Russian social media appeared to point out about 4 jail guards taken hostage, some mendacity in swimming pools of blood.
A video posted by the information channel Mash confirmed no less than two attackers. One in every of them shouted that they have been “mujahideen” of the ISIL (ISIS) group and had seized management of the jail. The video urged the loss of life toll was greater.
The movies couldn’t be independently verified.
Russian President Vladimir Putin mentioned in televised remarks that he had been briefed by the pinnacle of the jail service.
The jail is designated as a “harsh regime” penal colony with the capability to carry as much as 1,241 male prisoners.
Information websites with safety connections revealed the names of as much as 4 alleged attackers, figuring out them as residents of Uzbekistan and Tajikistan. There was no official affirmation.
The assaults come after the Islamic State in Khorasan Province, an ISIL affiliate, claimed accountability for an attack on a concert hall in Moscow that killed 145 final March, the deadliest such strike in Russia for 20 years.
The group stays probably the most lively associates of ISIL and takes its title from an historic caliphate within the area that when encompassed areas of Afghanistan, Iran, Pakistan and Turkmenistan.
It emerged from japanese Afghanistan in late 2014 and was made up of breakaway fighters of the Pakistan Taliban and native fighters who pledged allegiance to the late ISIL chief, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi.
In June, a bloody ISIL-linked prison uprising came about within the southern area of Rostov, the place particular forces shot lifeless six inmates who had taken hostages.
Later that month, no less than 20 folks have been killed in capturing assaults in two cities in Dagestan, a primarily Muslim area of southern Russia.
ISIL has repeatedly pledged to focus on Russia over its help of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, who has waged a navy marketing campaign to quash the group within the Center East.