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An onslaught by inmates astatine a Virginia prison injured 5 guards, according to authorities corrections officials who said astir of the assailants were MS-13 gang members who entered the U.S. illegally. The onslaught was seemingly premeditated, the officials said.
Three guards were stabbed and taken for aesculapian attraction on with 2 others wounded Friday astatine Wallens Ridge State Prison successful occidental Virginia, the authorities Department of Corrections said.
The bureau said successful a property merchandise that six inmates progressive had each been convicted of convulsive crimes including execution and rape and that 5 of them were "confirmed MS-13 pack members from El Salvador, who were successful this state illegally." It said the sixth inmate was a U.S. national with ties to a antithetic gang.
"Five of the individuals liable for this senseless onslaught should ne'er person been successful this state successful the archetypal place," Chad Dotson, manager of the Virginia Department of Corrections, said successful a statement. "Every azygous day, our officers enactment their lives connected the enactment to guarantee nationalist information for the much than 8.8 cardinal radical crossed the Commonwealth. This onslaught is an illustration of the dangers they look erstwhile they amusement up to enactment each day."
Corrections officials gave nary further details astir the situation attack, citing an ongoing investigation.
The bureau said 3 of the injured officers were treated and released the time of the attack. The remaining 2 were hospitalized successful unchangeable condition.
Carla Miles, a Department of Corrections spokesperson, said she did not cognize if the 2 guards remained successful the infirmary Sunday.
Virginia Governor Glenn Youngkin responded to the onslaught connected societal media.
"Praying for the afloat betterment of the 3 Virginia correctional officers brutally stabbed contiguous successful a premeditated onslaught by MS-13 pack members, transgression amerciable immigrants who should ne'er person been successful our state to statesman with," Youngkin wrote successful a post connected X. "Virginia volition ever basal with the brave men and women who support and service our Commonwealth."
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