{"id":45199,"date":"2024-08-23T14:46:13","date_gmt":"2024-08-23T14:46:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=45199"},"modified":"2024-08-23T14:46:13","modified_gmt":"2024-08-23T14:46:13","slug":"russian-inmates-take-staff-hostage-at-volgograd-prison-colony","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2024\/08\/23\/russian-inmates-take-staff-hostage-at-volgograd-prison-colony\/","title":{"rendered":"Russian Inmates Take Staff Hostage at Volgograd Prison Colony"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Russian inmates in the southern Volgograd region took several staff members hostage at a prison colony on Friday, in an incident that has left four workers hospitalized. The attack occurred at the IK-19 correctional institution, prompting swift action from authorities.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The Russian Federal Penitentiary Service confirmed the hostage situation in a statement, indicating that measures were being taken to free the captives. Volgograd Governor Andrey Bocharov assured the public that an operational headquarters had been established to coordinate the response and emphasized that there was no threat to the civilian population.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>This incident comes just two months after a similar situation involving prisoners linked to the Islamic State group, raising concerns about escalating tensions within the Russian prison system. Russian President Vladimir Putin announced that the situation would be discussed at the upcoming Security Council meeting on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Authorities continue to work on securing the release of the hostages while ensuring the safety of all involved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Russian inmates in the southern Volgograd region took several staff members hostage at a prison colony on Friday, in an incident that has left four workers hospitalized. The attack occurred at the IK-19 correctional institution, prompting swift action from authorities. &nbsp; The Russian Federal Penitentiary Service confirmed the hostage situation in a statement, indicating that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":45200,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[249],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-45199","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45199","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=45199"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45199\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":45220,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45199\/revisions\/45220"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/45200"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45199"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45199"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45199"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}