FSIN employees will be presented to state authorities for preventing escapes to the Kabardino-Balkarian Republic

Employees of the Federal Penitentiary Service (FSIN) of Russia who prevented prisoners from escaping from a train in the Kabardino-Balkarian Republic (KBR) will be presented with state awards. The department reports this on its Telegram channel.

“Employees of the Federal Penitentiary Service of Russia in the Stavropol Territory, who showed courage in the performance of official duties during an emergency at the Murtazovo station, who prevented an escape from custody by localizing the situation in a special car, will be presented with state awards of the Russian Federation, one of which is posthumous,” the message says.

According to preliminary data, on October 2 at about 21:00 local time, while being escorted from a cell to the toilet, one of the prisoners attacked a FSIN employee, killed him and tried to escape. The escape was prevented and the attacker was eliminated. As a law enforcement source told Lenta.ru, there was no prisoner riot on the Vladikavkaz-Adler train in Kabardino-Balkaria.

The Investigation Department of the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation for the Kabardino-Balkarian Republic opened a criminal case into an armed attack by a convicted person on guards.