At least five prisoners who supported the Islamic State were killed after attacking knives and trying to escape a prison in Tajiquistan, according to a police source.
The militant group was defeated in Syria in 2019, but dissident groups, including the Islamic State Khorasan (ISIS-K), continued the attacks, involving a mass shooting in a concert hall near Moscow last year.
Nine prisoners wielding knives and handcrafted knives attacked guards on Monday (3), commented the Ministry of Justice.
The ministry said the prisoners tried to kill the guards and escape from the penal colony 20 km east of Dushanbe, the capital of Tajiquistan.
A Tajique police source, speaking on anonymity, told Reuters that the prisoners involved were convicted of calls with the Islamic State and the Jihadi Salafi movement. Both are prohibited in Tajiquistan.
At least three prison guards were seriously injured in the incident and the prison administration head was taken to the hospital in serious condition, according to a second source.
An unqualified video on the Telegram channels showed what they claimed to be prisoners killed in blood puddles. At least one wore a hat with the Islamic State flag.
Andrei Serenko, a central Asian analyst, said that Islamic state supporters began attempting to escape and briefly raised the group’s flag over the arrest.
No group took responsibility for the riot.
The Isis-K named after an ancient Persian term to the region, Khorasan, which included parts of Iran, Turkmenistan and Afghanistan, as well as areas of tajiquistan and uzbekistan.
Tajiquistan, a country predominantly Sunni, houses 10 million people and is one of the poorest former Soviet republics.
A criminal investigation into the incident was started, the prosecutor said.
In May 2019, 29 prisoners and three guards were killed in the Penal Colony when a riot broke out.
Tajiques authorities said at the time that the riot was instigated by members of extremist groups.
The Islamic State took responsibility.
In 2018, 21 prisoners and two guards were killed in a prison in the city of Khujand, northern Tajiquistan.
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Source: CNN Brasil

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