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Tuesday, 04 January 2005
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.
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. Even so, the number represented an increase on 2003 figures. (Asia Plus-Blitz)