VOLGOGRAD, August 23. /TASS/. Four victims of a hostage-taking incident inside a high-security prison in southern Russia’s Volgograd Region have been hospitalized, the medics told TASS.
"Four victims have been taken to [the Central Regional] Hospital. Medical aviation is working," the hospital said.
Several inmates at a maximum-security penal colony (IK-19) in the Volgograd Region have taken the facility’s staff hostage, the Russian Federal Penitentiary Service (FSIN) told TASS earlier. One penitentiary officer has been killed, and several more have been injured.
A criminal probe has been launched. The FSIN has dispatched its central office employees to the scene for an investigation.