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Security services reportedly ready to storm jail in Volgograd region after hostage-takers claim Islamic State affiliation

Russian special forces stormed a detention centre in southern Russia, freeing two prison guards and shooting dead six inmates linked to the Islamic State militant group.

Chancellor Jeremy Hunt said European countries must “remain vigilant” after 137 were killed in an assault that suggests the jihadist group still maintains the capacity for major atrocities