Inmates kill at least three guards in Russia prison siege

MOSCOW: Inmates killed at least three Russian prison guards on Friday in a prison siege, officials said, with the assailants having apparent connections to the Islamic State (IS) group.

Russian special forces stormed the facility in Russia´s southern Volgograd region and shot dead all four attackers after an hours-long stand-off.

It was the second such case of IS-affiliated prisoners taking staff hostage since June, and comes with ethnic tensions running high following the terror attack on a Moscow concert hall in March.

“Four criminals took eight colony employees and four convicts hostage,” Russia´s federal penitentiary service said Friday. The assailants stabbed the employees, including some who tried to resist.