WORLD : Soviet Prison Rioters Surrender
Stubborn prison rioters surrendered to riot police in the Ukraine today, ending a six-day uprising that left their former jail in smoking ruins and at least four of their comrades dead.
Emerging from 18th-Century cells converted to bunkers, the insurgents were loaded onto trucks and paddy wagons and whisked to other prisons. Authorities said the inmates released their hostages unharmed but did not say how many had been held captive or who they were.
The approximately 2,000 inmates left behind a demolished and smoldering prison, with a yard bloodied by the slaughter of pigs for a final feast. On the eve of their surrender, the inmates slaughtered and roasted 100 pigs from the kitchen and downed them with gallons of vodka.
The prisoners, who had rioted for improved conditions, also left the prison yard littered with needles they used to inject themselves with drugs.
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