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In a dramatic conclusion to a tense standoff, Russian security forces stormed a pre-trial detention centre in southern Russia, successfully ending a hostage situation without any harm to the captives, according to Russian state news agency RIA Novosti.
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The Federal Penitentiary Service reported that the hostages, two employees of the Rostov region’s Detention Centre No. 1, were uninjured following the intervention. The agency confirmed that the hostage takers had been “liquidated,” though local news sources indicated that some of the inmates involved in the crisis were killed during the operation.
