ISFARA, July 19, 2014, Asia-Plus — Prosecutor-General Sherkhon Salimzoda visited the Tajik northern city of Isfara on July 18.
Iqbol Teshayev, a spokesman for the Isfara mayor’s office, says the main purpose of the visit was for Tajik chief prosecutor to get acquainted with the process of investigation of the incident that took place in the Vorukh jamoat on July 10.
“While in Isfara, Sherkhon Salimzoda also visited the Isfara central city hospital, where several residents of the Bedak village and two Tajik border guards are currently undergoing medical treatment for wounds they sustained in the July 10 incident. All of them are now in satisfactory condition,” Teshayev told Asia-Plus in an interview.
Then Tajik chief prosecutor met with members of the investigation group to get acquainted with the process of investigation.
First deputy governor of Sughd Jumaboy Sanginov, Sughd prosecutor Sharif Qurbonzoda and Isfara mayor Davron Zohidzoda accompanies Salimzoda on his working visit to Isfara.
Isfara administrators have confirmed that the current situation along the Tajik-Kyrgyz border is stable and all roads along the border are open for traffic.
We will recall that one Tajik national was killed and at least seven other Tajik nationals were wounded on July 10 as Kyrgyz border guards opened fire on local citizens in Tajikistan’s Vorukh exclave inside Kyrgyzstan.
Both sides blamed each other for starting an incident on July 10 in which one Tajik national was killed and seven others, including two border guards, were injured.
The Kyrgyz side later claimed that Tajik border guards fired mortars and a grenade launcher toward Kyrgyz territory after the incident. Kyrgyz authorities say one Kyrgyz border guard was injured and hospitalized.
Tajikistan and Kyrgyzstan have been locked in a tense border disputed for months around Vorukh, which is part of Tajikistan, but due to past redrawing of borders, it exists as an exclave some 20 kilometers inside Kyrgyzstan.
