MOSCOW. Aug 23 (Interfax) - Representatives of the Russian Federal Penitentiary Service's central office have departed for the Volgograd region, where inmates took hostages at Penitentiary No. 19, the service's press office said.
"In connection with the emergency at Penitentiary No. 19 of the Russian Federal Penitentiary Service's branch in the Volgograd region, a group of employees of the Russian Federal Penitentiary Service's central staff was urgently sent to the region to conduct an investigation," it said.
The service said earlier on Friday that inmates of Penitentiary No. 19 in the Volgograd region took hostages during a meeting of the disciplinary commission.