In Tomsk, police officers released a woman held hostage

In Tomsk, police officers managed to free a woman who was held hostage by her roommate. This was reported by the official representative of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation Irina Volk on January 13.

The man locked himself in the house with the woman and threatened her with a knife. He also did not respond to the demands of law enforcers to let them in.

After the consent of the landlady, the police broke down the door.

"The man was detained and taken to the territorial police department. As a result of the incident there are no casualties," wrote Volk in Telegram-channel.

At present, all the circumstances of what happened are being clarified.

Earlier, on December 3 last year, police in Novosibirsk detained a group of attackers on suspicion of kidnapping. Men in a car tracked down the victim, made sure that no one sees them, forcibly put him in the trunk and demanded 600 thousand rubles, and then took him away. The kidnappers left in a rented car, which had a GPS-tracker, which helped law enforcement officers to find them. A criminal case under part 2 of article 126 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation ("Kidnapping of a person") was opened against the suspects.