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TERROR SIEGE
ISIS prisoners shot dead by Russian snipers after taking guards hostage & killing four in suicide vest & knife mutiny
The prisoners demanded a helicopter, safe air passage and £1.5 million to release the hostages
ISIS prisoners who took guards hostage and killed four have been shot dead by Russian snipers.
The ISIS fanatic inmates slashed a guard's throat and forced hostages to beg Vladimir Putin for help after taking control of a Russian penal colony.
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Russian special forces stormed the jail after knife-wielding inmates took over the IK-19 penal colony in Volgorod, describing themselves as themselves as “Mujahideen of the Islamic State”.
One of the hostage-takers - 23-year-old Tajik native Rustamchon Navruzi - is reported to have strapped explosives to himself.
It is believed explosives were made by the prisoners from petrol and industrial liquids in the jail workshop to which they had access.
But the explosives failed to detonate and he was “liquidated” by the special forces.
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Four prison officers, however, died in the jail siege.
Among them was Sergei Gordopolov, 25, a jail officer with a bloodied face who was forced to make an appeal to Vladimir Putin.
Three others were named as Viktor Chernushkin, head of the prison’s educational department, Ivan Krechetov, security department chief, and Andrey Kuchma, his deputy.
Several more prison officers were hospitalised, according to reports.
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Shocking footage posted by the four attackers shows them holding a knife to a guard's neck while others lay on the ground bleeding.
Putin’s special forces were said to have been under orders to take the knife-wielding inmates "alive if possible" in order to find out who was behind the jail siege.
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But the prison battle came to an end Russia's special forces moved in and took down the four inmates.
One video showed a wounded and terrified prison officer covered in blood begging Putin to intervene inside the Surovikino prison compound in Volgograd.
A knife-wielding "terrorist" can be heard dictating to the officer what to say to Putin.
A voice can be heard saying: "Appeal to Putin, appeal to the president.
The hostage can be heard saying: "I appeal to the President of the Russian Federation..."
The voice of the captor says: “Louder…”
“I appeal to the President of the Russian Federation, Vladimir Putin, to fulfill the demand. I need a doctor…”
The Islamic State hostage-taker says: "You see, your own people have left you, they're not helping you... We’ve been demanding for half an hour that they call a doctor.
"They ran away and left you behind….
"Here are your friends, here are your colleagues."
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The perpetrators - believed to number three or four - described themselves as “Mujahideen of the Islamic State”, and at least one spoke Arabic.
The head of the IK-19 penal colony, Interior Ministry Colonel Andrei Devyatov, was being held hostage but reports said he was later freed or escaped.
He was reportedly beaten with a hammer and a bottle over his head.
One of the victims had his stomach opened with a knife.
They tried to cut off the ear of another hostage, named Yuri Mavrin, who was later hospitalised.
SHOT media reported that the hostage-takers demanded a helicopter with a pilot, £1.5 million pounds ($2 million USD) and an air corridor to the southeast in order to leave the country, with a promise to free the hostages in exchange.
They threatened to kill the hostages if their demands weren't met.
According to local media, the prison terrorists said: "We are doing all this for the sake of Allah, for the sake of establishing Sharia, for the sake of the Muslim brothers who are sitting in Syria.
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"We are for those brothers to whom they did this when all this happened in Crocus. This is revenge for all the Muslim brothers."
A mullah from a Volgograd mosque was to be brought to the jail for negotiations with radicals.
Reports said the attackers had bought knives inside the penal colony in exchange for bribes.
Prison officer Roman Ponomarev was in an “extremely serious condition”.
Devyatov was also wounded and in intensive care.
Another officer, Alexey Lygin, suffered stab wounds to the face, and had a skull fracture. He was in a critical condition.
A convict named Alexander Boyko suffered a stab wound to the abdomen.
A separate video shows a pale Putin, 71, start a security council meeting by seeking to show he is in charge of the latest crisis to hit him amid the war with Ukraine.
He said: "The Head of the Federal Penitentiary Service has reported to me on the situation in one of the prisons in the Volgograd region.
“I want to hear from the Minister of the Interior and the Director of the Federal Security Service [FSB].
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Mufti Mohamad Bata Kivakh, of the Central Spiritual Board of Muslims of Volgograd Region, said: “It is necessary to carry out a competent good operation for the release [of the hostages] and destroy these creatures on the spot. That is the only way."
He denied Muslim clerics were involved in negotiations.
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