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Tajik Deputy Minister of Defense accused of terrorism

'05.09.2015' Source: meduza.io Subscribe to ForumDaily on Google News

The Tajik Interior Ministry accused the country's deputy defense minister, Abduhalim Nazarzod, of organizing armed attacks on the central office of the Ministry of Defense in Dushanbe and the department of internal affairs in the city of Vahdat.

In the report of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Tajikistan, these attacks are called terrorist acts. Security officials claim that Nazarzoda led his accomplices and personally participated in the attacks.

The attacks in Dushanbe and Vahdat were committed early on the morning of September 4. On the same day, the Deputy Minister of Defense was dismissed. Attackers seized a significant amount of weapons and ammunition.

As a result of the attacks, nine police officers from Tajikistan were killed. Another six were injured.

According to the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Tajikistan, the police killed 13 members of the Nazarzoda group and 19 - detained. In addition, more than 500 weapons were seized.

Nazarzoda himself is hiding in the Ramist Gorge with his seven or eight supporters. The Interior Ministry argue that the group is completely surrounded.

Abduhalim Nazarzoda is a member of the Islamic Renaissance Party of Tajikistan, a former fighter of the United Tajik Opposition. In the middle of 1990, he fought against the government. September 4 Nazarzoda dismissed from the post of Deputy Minister of Defense with the wording "for committing a crime." He was later accused of terrorism.

US Embassy in DUshanbe suspended work due to attacks by armed men on police officers on Friday night.

“Although the significance of these incidents is unclear, other acts of violence may follow,” the embassy said in a message to Facebook. - The US Embassy is closed, employees are advised to take shelter in homes and not send children to school today. All US citizens are advised to be careful. ”

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