Law enforcement agencies have detained a group of individuals, presumably foreigners, in connection with the high-profile murders in Kanibadam. According to a source from Azda TV in Kanibadam, 11 people were detained while attempting to cross the Tajik-Uzbek state border. The source reports that all of them are citizens of Uzbekistan and were detained while […]
Law enforcement agencies have detained a group of individuals, presumably foreigners, in connection with the high-profile murders in Kanibadam.
According to a source from Azda TV in Kanibadam, 11 people were detained while attempting to cross the Tajik-Uzbek state border.
The source reports that all of them are citizens of Uzbekistan and were detained while trying to leave the country. Their fingerprints resemble those of the murderers in Kanibadam.
The authorities of Tajikistan have not yet made any statements. There is currently no official information regarding this high-profile case. Azda TV has not been able to confirm the information from other sources.
For the past three months, there have been reports of the murder of at least members of four families in the city of Kanibadam. Two of these incidents occurred at the end of May.
As reported by Radio Ozodi, on the night of May 28 to 29, six members of two families were killed in the village of Sanjidzor in Kanibadam. One family of the deceased are Tajiks, and the other are Kyrgyz. Eyewitnesses and relatives reported that the bodies of the deceased showed signs of violent death.
Residents of the village and some relatives informally stated that money and property were missing from the homes of the deceased.
Radio Ozodi, citing residents of Kanibadam, also reports that locals live in fear due to suspicious individuals in black attempting to enter their homes. The last attempt by intruders was recorded on June 11, when a suspicious person in black clothing and a mask appeared in the yard of the Maksudov family home in central Kanibadam. Residents are afraid to sleep at night and go to bed with makeshift weapons – pitchforks, axes, knives.
Law enforcement agencies have not yet commented on the situation in northern Tajikistan. The motives or reasons for the murders remain unknown.