South Russia | A hostage situation in a detention center in Russia

in southern Russia There is a hostage situation going on in the Rostov-on-Don detention center.

Prisoners held at the center have taken two employees hostage, the Rostov Region Detention Center says in a statement. According to the statement, the prisoners belong to the extremist organization Isis.

According to the detention centre, the release of the hostages is being negotiated.

The Russian news agency Tass reports that, according to a police source, among those who took hostages are members of the extremist organization Isis accused of terrorism.

Isis has previously said that he had carried out several attacks in Russia. In March, 144 people died and hundreds were injured in a terrorist attack on a concert hall in Krasnogorsk, Moscow region.

More than 20 people have been arrested in Russia in connection with the attack, including four suspected attackers. All are from Tajikistan.

Russia has fought ISIS in Syria, for example, and ISIS has had cells in the Muslim-majority republics of southern Russia, Ingushetia, Chechnya, and Dagestan.