Prison hostage drama as ‘ISIS inmates with suicide vests’ overrun Russian gulag capturing guards & killing at least one

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ISIS terrorists wearing suicide vests have taken control of a Russian prison, while forcing hostage to plead for help.

Horrific footage shows at least five bloodied Russian prison guards lying in pools of blood, as the suspected hostage takers are seen nearby.

Suspected ISIS prisoners have captured guards at a Russian prison[/caption]

a man is holding a black cloth with arabic writing on it .

Local media has reported one staff member is dead, it is not known how many more have been killed or wounded[/caption]

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A Russian guard was filmed begging for Putin to intervene[/caption]

The terrorist have demanded £1.5 million and helicopter[/caption]

According to Mash Media, one of the hostage-takers was identified as Rustamchon Navruzi, 23, a native of Tajikistan.

He was seen wearing a homemade suicide waistcoat and holding a detonator.

It is believed explosives were made by the prisoners from petrol and industrial liquids in the jail workshop to which they had access.

One video showed a wounded and terrified prison officer covered in blood begging Vladimir 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.”

Russian sources reported at least one guard dead with fears of more fatalities.

One of the hostage-takers was feared to have explosives strapped to him.

Another man appeared to have his throat cut, while others were wounded after fleeing the massacre.

TASS state news agency reported at least one member of the prison staff was killed.

A FSIN prison service representative said: “During a meeting of the disciplinary commission in Correctional Colony No. 19 in Volgograd region, several prisoners took hostages.”

The perpetrators – believed to number three or four – described themselves as “Mujahideen of the Islamic State”, and at least one spoke Arabic.

Russian special services troops were reported to be at the scene, some 93 miles southwest of Volgograd city.

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 he 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.

“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.

Three employees of the jail were in intensive care after fleeing the horror.

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.

Other minor news sources claimed that four had been killed, and three wounded, but this was not confirmed.

The names of the suspected terrorists holding hostages were given as Ramzidin Toshev, Rustamchon Navruzi, Nazirchon Toshov, and Temur Khusinov

Unconfirmed reports said two were reported to be natives of Uzbekistan, and two from Tajikistan.

The Russian Investigative Committee opened a criminal case under articles on hostage-taking and prison disruption.

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].

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.