422 TAJIKS RETURNED HOME IN COFFINS FROM RUSSIA IN 2004
By empty (1/4/2005 issue of the CACI Analyst)
A spokesperson for Tajikistan\'s Interior Ministry told Asia Plus-Blitz on 4 January that the bodies of 422 Tajik citizens were returned to Tajikistan from Russia in 2004. Sixty Tajiks were killed by violence, 46 died in traffic accidents, 181 perished as a result of illness, and 129 were killed in various accidents. The Interior Ministry totals included bodies returned by air and rail, but not buses and cars.Visit also
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