Emergency/incidents

The Committee for Emergency Situations has advised drivers not to travel unnecessarily until February 23.

Four officers of Tajikistan’s Air Force – Lieutenant-Colonel Vadim Grudyna, Major Bakhtiyor Jurayev, Senior Lieutenant Azizullo Mansourov and Senior Lieutenant Khoushnoud Amirbekov – were killed in a chopper crash in Afghanistan.

Public funeral rites of crew members killed in a chopper crash in Afghanistan will be held in one of military units of the Ministry of Defense in Dushanbe.

A transport helicopter MI-8 belonging to the Ministry of Defense of Tajikistan crashed in Afghanistan on February 11, killing four persons.

In an interview with Russia’s Novaya Gazeta, Dodojon Atovulloyev has said that he is sure that the attack on him was contracted.

The head of the Tajinfo media holding, Muhammad Egamzod, has expressed his view on an attack on Dodojon Atovulloyev.

23-year-old Tajik national Bakhtiyor Rahimberdiyev was arrested in Moscow Friday morning on suspicion of stabbing Dodojon Atovulloyev.

Russian journalist considers that it is necessary to seek the trace of those who hired attack on Atovulloyev in Tajikistan.