Washington-SANA
Police announced the killing of a prisoner who tried to hold an officer hostage in an Oklahoma City prison.
The American NBC News website quoted Greg Williams, the prison director, as saying in a press conference that while the officer was distributing medicines to the inmates of the center, one of the prisoners took him hostage and then seized the keys that were with him to release a number of other prisoners, pointing out that the floor contained 37 prisoners. .
He added that the officer was freed and taken to hospital to receive treatment for his injury after police officers shot and killed the prisoner who had detained him.