Important Takeaways:

• Four prison employees have been killed after prisoners staged a revolt in a Russian penal colony and took several hostages, federal authorities say.
• Special forces stormed the IK-19 Surovikino facility in the southwestern Volgograd region after knife-wielding prisoners, who identified themselves as Islamic State (IS) militants, claimed to have taken control of the sprawling complex.
• The attack began during a disciplinary commission meeting, Russia’s Federal Penitentiary Service said in a statement.
• It was unclear how many hostages had been taken, though some reports in Russian media suggested that the prison’s director and deputy director had been seized
• The Volgograd hostage-taking is the second such incident this summer, after six prisoners who pledged allegiance to the Islamic State group captured two guards at a facility in the neighboring Rostov region.
• IK-19 Surovikino is a high-security penal colony. It is believed to hold about 1,200 inmates.

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