Police have successfully released all six female hostages held in a penal colony located in the village of Seryodka in Russia's northwestern Pskov region on Friday, a local police source said.
Two inmates seized the six women, all of them employed at the colony's medical unit, earlier in the day and held them for several hours. Before the beginning of the hostage release operation police managed to free one woman. She said the inmates were armed with knives and scalpels.
"One of the hostages has stab wounds, she was taken to the hospital immediately after the end of the operation," the source said.
Both the hostage takers were taken alive. One of them was deafened by a blast during the police assault. He was also hospitalized.
SERYODKA VILLAGE, May 27 (RIA Novosti)
