Tajik Border Guards released the hostages
Dushanbe, 28.03.2016. (NIAT “Khovar”). - Following the results of talks between representatives of Tajikistan and local Afghan authorities two Tajik citizens were freed from captivity. It was reported by the press secretary of the Main Department of Border Guards of the State Committee for National Security of the Republic of Tajikistan Muhammad Ulughojaev.
Recall that the hostages were three days in the hands of an unidentified armed group, supposedly drug smugglers.
Tajik citizens have been captured by armed Afghans who had crossed at noon on March 25 through the border in Shamsiddin Shohin district /former Shuraabad/ and were taken away on the Afghan side. In the course of resistance one of the road workers has got slight injury.
The commander of the Border Guards of Tajikistan Rajabali Rahmonali, who heads a special commission on investigation of the incident and the release of the hostages, is in the area of the incident.
Additional information about the incident is not reported yet.