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Isis-linked prisoners killed after taking guards hostage
Two prison guards have been freed and their captors killed in a special operation in Russia after Islamist inmates armed with knives smashed their way out of their cell and took the guards hostage. Six men managed to knock out the bars of a cell and seize …