The Interior Ministry says an explosion that occurred in the building of the Interior Ministry’s office for Qurghon Teppa, the capital of the Khatlon province, was a fatal accident.
An official source at the Interior Ministry says that Captain Muhiddin Zohidzoda, an investigator with the Interior Ministry’s office for Qurghon Teppa, was killed in the explosion that occurred in the evening of December 1.
According to him, a loaded RPG (hand-held anti-tank grenade launcher) exploded when Captain Zohidzoda was registering weapons found by police officers in one of districts of Qurghon Teppa.
The source refrained from giving further details of the incident.
Arms caches having been discovered in the city are legacy of the country's disastrous civil war.
The RPG is a portable, reusable, unguided, shoulder-launched, anti-tank rocket-propelled grenade launcher). A rocket-propelled grenade (often abbreviated RPG) is a shoulder-fired anti-tank weapon system that fires rockets equipped with an explosive warhead. Most RPGs can be carried by an individual soldier.
An RPG comprises two main parts: the launcher and a rocket equipped with a warhead. The most common types of warheads are high explosive (HE) and high explosive anti-tank (HEAT) rounds. These warheads are affixed to a rocket motor and stabilized in flight with fins.
