DUSHANBE, September 30, 2010, Asia-Pus — The 35-year-old Sergeant Rahmatullo Talbakov, serviceman of the special police unit, has died in hospital of wounds sustained on September 28 in a special operation to capture the jailbreak fugitives in Fayzobod district, a source at the Ministry of Interior (MoI) told Asia-Plus Thursday afternoon.
We will recall that Tajik law enforcement authorities said that another of 25 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 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, was killed in the Chanoro village of Fayzobod district on September 28 when he resisted security forces seeking to arrest him.
Suleymanov together with three other fugitives from the jailbreak were reportedly hiding in a house in Chanoro.
Two officers from the State Committee for National Security (SCNS) and one serviceman of the special police unit were wounded as the fugitives threw hand grenade. Suleymanov was killed in shootout, while three other escapees managed to flee.
It is the same village near which Rahmiddin Azizov, another of 25 prison escapees, was killed on September 26. Azizov also resisted arrest but was killed by security forces. Machine-gun Kalashnikov and a large amount of money in the national currency were found on the spot.
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.
Seven fugitives have been detained and two other have been killed, while 16 others, among them three Russian nationals, four Afghans and two Uzbeks, are still at large.
