In Tajikistan, an armed group attacked frontier post

15 of the attackers were liquidated, the rest were detained. Power structures accuse the group “Islamic state” of attacks.

On the night of November 6, an armed group of 20 masked men, using firearms, attacked the frontier post No.4 “Ishkobod” of the military unit of the border detachment “Sultanabad”, the press service of the border troops of the State Committee for National Security (SCNS) of Tajikistan said. “As a result of the operation of the security forces, 15 members of the armed criminal group, who were surrounded, were neutralized, 5 of them were detained. In an armed shootout, 1 soldier of the border troops and 1 employee of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Republic of Tajikistan died.”

Later, the press center of the SCNS reported that the attackers were militants of the group “Islamic state” which is banned in Tajikistan. “During the interrogation of the detained militants, it turned out that an armed terrorist group illegally crossed the state border of Tajikistan with Afghanistan on November 3,” the Tajik state agency said. “They came from Kalyai Zol (the province of Afghanistan) by a special order using the darkness. They chose the frontier post “Ishkobod” as the most convenient position and entered into an armed shootout.”

It remains to note that on November 6, the Constitution Day is celebrated in Tajikistan, and the country’s President Emomali Rahmon is on a working visit to European countries these days.