Riot reportedly broke out in the city of Khujand late on Wednesday, confirmed by the city government.<\/p>\n
At least 25 inmates and two security officers have been killed after a riot broke out at a high-security prison in\u00a0Tajikistan<\/a>, three security sources said on Thursday.<\/p>\n The violence started late on Wednesday when an inmate, believed to be a member of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL), attacked a guard and seized his assault rifle, said an interior ministry official who declined to give his name.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Officers restored order hours later with the help of reinforcements, a security official speaking on condition of anonymity said.<\/p>\n The officials said at least 25 inmates were killed along with a warder and a policeman. The third source, also a security official, said three guards had died.<\/p>\n Local authorities confirmed a riot had occurred but gave no details.<\/p>\n Khujand is about 300km north of capital Dushanbe.<\/p>\n In July, ISIL claimed responsibility for an attack which killed four Western tourists in Tajikistan, an impoverished Central Asian country.<\/p>\n In 1997,\u00a0security forces had reportedly killed\u00a0at least 24 people after\u00a0a riot broke out in Khujand prison,\u00a0<\/a>according to a Human Rights Watch\u00a0report<\/a>. Non-governmental sources, however, claimed that as many as 100 prisoners were killed.<\/p>\n https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/news\/2018\/11\/13-killed-tajikistan-prison-riot-report-181108061302590.html<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Riot reportedly broke out in the city of Khujand late on Wednesday, confirmed by the city government. At least 25 inmates and two security officers have been killed after a riot broke out at a high-security prison in\u00a0Tajikistan, three security sources said on Thursday. The violence started late on Wednesday when an inmate, believed to be a member of the… Read more »<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":123,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2381","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-post"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/southandcentralasiablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2381","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/southandcentralasiablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/southandcentralasiablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/southandcentralasiablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/123"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/southandcentralasiablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2381"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/southandcentralasiablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2381\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2382,"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/southandcentralasiablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2381\/revisions\/2382"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/southandcentralasiablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2381"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/southandcentralasiablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2381"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/southandcentralasiablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2381"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}