Investigators are looking into the circumstances of the attack on correctional officers…

Investigators are looking into the circumstances of the attack on correctional officers in Kalmykia, and a case has been opened.

According to the investigation, on August 5, 2022, at about 10:20 p.m., on the territory of the strict conditions detachment of correctional colony No. 2 of the Federal Penitentiary Service of Russia in the Republic of Kalmykia, two convicts, acting as a group of persons by prior conspiracy, deliberately, with the aim of killing two persons in connection with the implementation of their official activities, using a home-made sharpened plate and reinforcement with a hand-made ax, attacked employees colony, causing them injuries of varying severity. As a result of the incident, one correctional officer died at the scene, the second was subsequently hospitalized in the republican hospital for medical care and is in serious condition.

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In the period from 22:40 to 23:00 of the same day, the convicts entered the dormitory territory, where, resisting arrest, using the above-mentioned piercing and cutting objects, they used violence, including life-threatening violence, against 6 correctional officers, who received injuries of varying severity.

Two convicts, born in 2000 and born in 1994, were detained for committing the crime. One of them was serving a sentence of imprisonment for a term of 3 years and 6 months for committing several crimes, including robbery, the other was serving a sentence of imprisonment for a term of 15 years for committing several crimes, including murder.

Investigative bodies of the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation for the Republic of Kalmykia have opened a criminal case on this fact

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