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Russian special forces have quashed a short-lived mutiny at a provincial detention center on Sunday, killing detainees, some charged with terrorism, who had broken out of their cells earlier in the day, according to Russian state media.<\/p>\n
Six detainees who awaited court appearances at a pretrial detention center in the southern city of Rostov-on-Don had managed to take control of the facility, state media reported. Armed with knives, the suspects took two guards hostage, the reports said.<\/p>\n
A video posted on Rostov\u2019s local news channels and reposted by some Russian officials appeared to show a man identified as one of the detainees brandishing a knife and demanding a car to leave the detention center for an unspecified destination. A detainee is seen in the video holding a black flag associated with the Islamic State. The video could not immediately be verified.<\/p>\n
Security agents had surrounded the detention center by Sunday morning. Soon after, Russian state media published a short statement from the country\u2019s prison service saying that security agents had stormed the facility, \u201cliquidated\u201d the mutinied detainees and freed the hostages unharmed.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
The Rostov governor and senior federal officials have yet to comment on the episode.<\/p>\n
The Rostov mutiny comes less than three months after assailants staged the deadliest terrorist attack<\/a> in Russia in more than a decade at a concert hall near Moscow. The attack, which killed nearly 150 people, took place despite U.S. intelligence services providing<\/a> a detailed warning to their Russian counterparts of the impending plot.<\/p>\n The Islamic State took responsibility for the concert hall attack. President Vladimir V. Putin, however, has blamed it on Ukraine and Western intelligence services, without providing evidence.<\/p>\n Mr. Putin\u2019s critics said those accusations were an attempt to deflect his government\u2019s failure to deal with the threat of Islamist terrorism<\/a> as the attention shifted to the war in Ukraine.<\/p>\n At least one Russian official publicly questioned how the Rostov detainees managed to break out of their cells and overpower the guards.<\/p>\n \u201cThey clearly were planning this for a while,\u201d Andrei Medvedev, a Russian propagandist and regional lawmaker in Moscow, wrote on the Telegram<\/a> messaging app on Sunday. \u201cWhere is the protocol for dealing with especially dangerous detainees?\u201d<\/p>\n Hwaida Saad contributed reporting.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n