DUSHANBE, June 30, 2009, Asia-Plus — The tragedy took place in the center of Dushanbe Saturday (June 27) night, at about 10:00 pm.
According to the Ministry of Interior (MoI), the 33-year-old Khurshed Bobokalonov, the head of the admission department at Oncology Center within the Republican National Medical Center (formerly Republican Clinical Hospital # 3), was detained by police while being drunken.
“To identify his personality police officers decided to take Bobokalonov to the police department but he died in the police car for unknown reason,” the source at a MoI said, supposing that Bobokalonov probably died of heart problems.
In the meantime, colleagues and relatives of Khurshed Bobokalonov say that he went into sports and enjoyed good health and he never abused alcohol.
On that day, Khurshed met his friends after training (he went into bodybuilding) and they decided to drink beer in one of bars in the center of the city. After that, Bobokalonov went to see his mother who lives near the supermarket Sitora in the center of Dushanbe. “On the way to his mother’s home he was stopped by police officers,” said one of Khurshed’s colleagues, “I do not know what happened between them, but according to some witnesses, some 15 policemen tried to forcibly push Khurshed into the police car and he reportedly died on the way to the police department.”
According to relatives of Khurshed Bobokalonov, there were signs of bruises on his body. One his relatives said that the results of forensic examination would made ready today.
