Tajikistan this week arrested nine people suspected of having links to last Friday’s massacre at a Russian concert hall and also to the Islamic militant group that claimed responsibility for the attack, a security source in the country told Reuters.
Four suspects in Russia’s deadliest attack in 20 years are Tajik citizens. They were arrested along with seven other suspects, some of whom are also from the former Soviet Central Asian nation.
Tajikistan’s State Security Committee arrested nine people in the city of Vakhdat on Monday and the suspects are now in the capital Dushanbe, the source said without giving further details.
At least 143 people died in the attack on the concert hall outside Moscow.
Tajikistan, a member of a Russian-led security bloc and home to a Russian military base, has also rounded up the suspects’ families so Russian investigators can question them in Dushanbe, sources told Reuters this week.
The Muslim-majority nation of 10 million people borders Afghanistan and relies heavily on remittances from migrants working in Russia. Its own economy was devastated by a civil war in the 1990s.
Source: Terra
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