Hundreds of lags with deadly diseases flee Russian prison camp engulfed by fire

2023-04-26

Hundreds of dangerous lags with deadly diseases fled the Russian prison camp they were being held at after it was engulfed by flames.

Around 240 murderers, rapists and other vicious criminals – who are infected with nasty diseases including HIV, Hepatitis C and tuberculosis – were evacuated from the gruesome Stalin-era GULAG prison camp in Sosva, Sverdlovsk region.

‌It's been reported that at least one person was killed while around 108 homes were ruined in the surrounding area.

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Many out of control wildfires – some of which are believed to have been started by Russian protesters – have been taking the country by storm of late with Vladimir Putin pushing firefighters and other essential resources to aid his war in Ukraine.

And it has been predicted the worst-ever wildfire season could be on its way as Mad Vlad neglects his own people in order to kill those in neighbouring Ukraine.

‌Russia's emergencies ministry said of the prison camp fire: "The rapid spread of fire is facilitated by a large amount of dry vegetation, wind gusts of 20 metres per second, as well as the distance of water to tackle the fire."

‌The prison was a penal colony specifically for inmates with contagious diseases but has now been largely destroyed by the wildfire, and so has a local sawmill.

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Reports have suggested the lags were later on locked up at a different penal centre in Nizhny Tagil.
Gennady Makarov, head of the Sosva village administration, said the fire was still ongoing with firefighting helicopters having been deployed.

Eight large fires were recorded across the region in the Urals Mountains – in Sosva, Taezhny, Tayozhny, Karpinsk, Pervouralsk, Visim, Baikalovo and Pervomaisky.

‌But Putin is now facing wildfires raging across seven of Russia's 11 times zones – many of which are fuelled by wind burning dry grass and forests after the winter snow melt.

‌People have been blamed, however, for starting some of the hundreds of wildfires in recent weeks in protest of the war in Ukraine.

Ukraine’s intelligence chief Major-General Kyrylo Budanov said: “Much of this is no accident…

“Something is constantly on fire [in Russia].

“Signalling equipment on railways, it lights up several times a day, on various highways constantly for two to three hours, sometimes for five to six hours, traffic gets suspended.”

He admitted Kyiv was behind some of the attacks.

“Clearly it doesn’t just happen like this…. I would put it this way: money works wonders,” he added.

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