Russia’s Federal Penitentiary Service has announced that a riot is underway at the Ik-19 penal colony in the Volgograd region, and that prison staff have been taken hostage. According to a statement reported by Tass, “several prisoners” are taking part in the riot. Sources cited by the Russian agency say one prison employee was killed and another was injured.
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