Emergency/incidents

Two Russian climbers have been killed by an avalanche while ascending the Ismoili Somoni Peak in Tajikistan.

TSN employee has filed an application against the TSB crisis administration head, accusing him of attempted murder and slander.

Two young men from Dushanbe have been arrested on suspicion of stabbing attack.

The head of the personnel department at the Accounts of Chamber of Tajikistan, Kenjaboy Jourayev, who had been reported missing since July 22, has been found dead not far from the Khoja Obi Garm settlement in the Varzob district.

Russian serviceman has been stabbed to death in a fight in Qurghon Teppa, the capital of the southern Khatlon province.

Downtown Dushanbe was left without water on Saturday because of a mudslide that hit the Varzob district on Friday.

Torrential rain on July 28 caused a series of mudslides that damaged roads and bridges in the districts of Asht (Sughd province) and Rasht (Rasht Valley).

Seven people were killed on July 27 as rockfall swept a vehicle over the precipice into the river.

There is risk of mudslides in mountain areas and rivers may rise.

One person was killed and at least 17 others injured on July 9 as an explosion occurred at a fuel station in the southern Khatlon province.

The purpose of the visit was for the prime minister to get acquainted with the process of mitigation of effects of floods and mudslides in the region.

Dozens of homes have been destroyed by an earthquake in eastern Tajikistan (Rasht Valley), although no casualties have been reported.

A mass brawl broke out between ethnic Dagestanis and guest workers from Central Asia at the construction site in Kudrovo, Leningrad oblast on June 27.

A Tajik cadet at the East Siberian Instituted of the Russian Interior Ministry has been killed in Irkutsk.

A source at one of Tajik law enforcement agencies has linked a prison breakout in Khujand to radical Islamism.