DUSHANBE, September 28, 2010, Asia-Plus — Another member of a group of high-profile inmates who broke out of detention facility in Dushanbe last month was killed in Fayzobod district on September 28 while offering armed resistance to security forces.
The source at one of law enforcement agencies told Asia-Plus Tuesday afternoon that the 25-year-old Gusein Suleymanov from Russia”s North Caucasus republic of Dagestan, one of 25 inmates who broke out of the detention facility in Dushanbe on August 23, has been killed in special operation carried out the government security forces in the village of Chanoro in Fayzobod district, some 50 kilometers east of Dushanbe.
“Four fugitives were hiding in one of houses in Chanoro,” said the source, “When law enforcement officers tried to detain the fugitives, the last offered desperate resistance. Two officers from the State Committee for National Security (SCNS) and one police officer were wounded as the fugitives threw hand grenade.”
Gusein Suleymanov was killed in the exchange of gunfire and the fate of three other fugitives is unknown, the source said.
As it had been reported earlier, 25 convicts serving long jail terms escaped from the SCNS-run pretrial detention facility in the early hours of morning of August 23, killing five prison guards. Dressing in camouflage, the escapees reportedly fled toward eastern Tajikistan. The majority of the fugitives were among 46 people convicted by the Supreme Court on August 19 of terrorism, drug trafficking, and seeking the forcible overthrow of the government. The prisoners reportedly took advantage of the negligence of the jail warden.
Seven fugitives have been detained and two other have been killed, while 16 others are still at large.
