Prisoners kill Kyrgyz MP taken hostage
Posted on: Thursday, 20 October 2005, 09:33 CDT
BISHKEK (Reuters) - A parliamentarian being held hostage in a Kyrgyz prison died from gunshot wounds on Thursday, the Justice Ministry said, while local television reported another two hostages had been killed.
The deputy, Tynychbek Atambayev, was killed after patients at a prison hospital near the capital Bishkek took him and his entourage hostage, a spokesman for the Justice Ministry's prisons service said.
Source: REUTERS
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