Police officer UFA, 13 Jan. Law enforcement agencies in Sterlitamak released a woman and her child who was held by an armed acquaintance in the apartment, according to the press service of the Ministry of Internal Affairs in Bashkiria. According to the ministry, early on Thursday morning the police received a message from a citizen that his 32-year-old sister and 10-year-old nephew were being held in their apartment by a man armed with knife and a gas canister. At the same time, the teenager himself managed to send a message to his uncle by phone. «The police officers who arrived at the scene entered into negotiations with the intruder. He did not respond to repeated requests to open the door. apartment. Withdrawn a knife and a gas canister, «- said in the message. The man was detained and taken to the Department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia in Sterlitamak.» According to available information, the detainee is a 27-year-old native of the Orenburg region, previously repeatedly convicted, including . Was released from prison in August last year, «- said the regional police. The department does not specify the motive of the crime and whether the hostages were injured. 
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