DUSHANBE, September 15, 2012, Asia-Plus — Topvideo.tj video shows woman setting fire to the Korvon marketplace on the Dushanbe outskirts. The video also shows that the woman had an accomplice. The surveillance camera showed him together with the incendiary.
Rumors have circulated through the city that the Korvon director, Ms. Halima Mavlonov, has allegedly set fire to the marketplace by herself.
The law enforcement authorities, however, denied these rumors as absolutely unfounded.
We will recall that the fire that broke out at the marketplace late on September 5 destroyed one of the market”s major buildings and numerous trade stands where goods were stored.
Officials said one person was killed in the fire and four others were hospitalized with burns.
On September 6, hundreds of vendors who lost their goods in the deadly fire held a march in Dushanbe to demand that authorities compensate them for their losses.
Dushanbe Mayor Mahmadsaid Ubaidulloyev met with the vendors on the same day and promised to arrange compensation and deals with local banks to delay credit payments due by the vendors.
The marketplace owner Nurshed Mashrabov has offered a reward of 150,000 somoni (equivalent to some 30,000 U.S. dollars) for those who help to find the incendiaries.
