DUSHANBE, August 13, 2012, Asia-Plus – The death toll from the incident at a checkpoint in Gorno Badakhshan has risen to two after one of those wounded at the checkpoint died in a hospital in Khorog Saturday evening.
As it had been reported earlier, one person was killed and three others were wounded after the government soldier opened fire at a minivan at the checkpoint near the village of Bidurd, some five kilometers of Khorog.
The incident took place on August 10.
Police in the Gorno-Badakhshan Autonomous Region said the driver of a vehicle failed to stop at the checkpoint and did not react to a warning shot. “He ignored an order to stop and continued driving,” the source said.
A source at the Khorog police department told Asia-Plus that the driver did not react to the order to stop at once. “He stopped the vehicle little far from the checkpoint and began to back it, while one of the soldiers opened fire at the minivan,” said the source. “As a result of firing, one of the passengers – Vohid Jumatbekov, 21 – was killed and three others, including two customs officers (Vafonazar Abdurahimov, 30, and Rashid Shodmonbekov, 25) and one woman, were wounded.
Meanwhile, Rashid Shodmonbekov died in the hospital Saturday evening from wounds he sustained in the incident.
