The body of a man 48-year-old resident of the Suchon jamoat in the Shugnan district of the Gorno Badakhshan Autonomous Region (GBAO), who went missing in November last year, has been recovered. The investigation now has to find out the cause of his death – whether drowned or was killed.
The man was reported missing on November 25, 2019 and all this time, police and his relatives were looking for him.
Rescuers from the GBAO emergency management agency found his body on the bank of the Ghund River in the afternoon of February 18, according to the Emergencies Committee under the Government of Tajikistan.
“The body was taken to Khorog and the investigation now has to find out the cause of his death – whether the man drowned or was killed,” Ms. Umeda Yusufi, a spokeswoman of the Emergencies Committee, told Asia-Plus in an interview.
According to data from the Emergencies Committee, twenty-two people were killed in Tajikistan last year as a result of natural disasters: nine of them were killed by avalanches; seven others were killed by mudslides; three persons were killed by rockfalls; two persons were killed by heavy wind; and one person was killed by lightning.
