Three guards and 29 inmates were killed at a high-security prison in Tajikistan after convicted Islamic State jihadists launched a rebellion, the country's justice ministry said Monday.
The ministry said the riot began late Sunday in a prison in the town of Vakdat, ten kilometers from the capital Dushanbe. The rebels armed themselves with knives and killed three guards and five prisoners, Index reports.
One of the initiators of the rebellion was Bekruz Gulmurod, the son of Gulmurod Kalimov, a high-ranking officer of the Tajik special unit who defected to the side of the Islamic State in 2015 and, according to the ministry, was killed in Syria.
Security forces killed 24 militants and restored peace in the prison with 1.500 inmates, the ministry added.
Islamic State, which at one point stretched across much of Syria and Iraq but has now lost its strongholds, claimed responsibility for another uprising in a Tajik prison in November last year, followed by another deadly attack.
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