At least 40 servicemen die in fire attack in eastern Tajikistan
13:07, 20 September 2010
DUSHANBE. September 20. KAZINFORM At least 40 servicemen, including five officers, were killed in an armed attack on a truck convoy of the Tajik Defence Ministry in the Rasht district near the Pamir Mountains on Sunday, according to the independent news agency Asia Plus. Official sources are putting the death toll at 24; Kazinform refers to Itar-Tass.
A transportation plane delivered more than ten wounded to the Dushanbe military hospital.
Asia Plus gives the details of the attack. There 75 servicemen in the convoy. They came under a massive grenade and machine-gun fire at the exit from the gorge.
An investigation is under way.