DUSHANBE, June 6, Asia-Plus - A mudslide caused by heavy rainfalls on June 5 has left three dead in southern Tajikistan.

According to the Committee for Emergency Situations (CES), a tragedy took place in the village of Zarkamar in the Qubodiyon district of Khatlon.  Three residents of the village – the 30-year-old Qurbon Saidov, the 28-year-old Umeda Ergasheva and the 50-year-old Zarkhol Rousiyev – were buried by the mudslide that hit the village. 

The source at a CES said that according to the preliminary data, the disaster also damaged a number of residential buildings, agricultural fields and water supply in several villages of the district.  

According to the source, a special commission has been set up to assess an actual volume of damage caused to the district.  The CES deputy head, Colonel Sulton Kholiqnazarov, is currently in Qubodiyon to closely monitor the situation.    

The CES said that torrential rain that hit some areas of the country last overnight caused flooding in districts adjoining Dushanbe.  “Flooding damaged three residential buildings in the village of Nozirobod in Vahdat and destroyed some river bank protection works on the Ilok River in Fayzobod,” the source said.    

In the meantime, the 24-year-old resident of the village of Gusor in the Panjakent district of Sughd Ulughbek Rouziboy was killed by lightening on June 1.  Besides, it is already the second day that Khatlon emergency service rescuers are seeking body of a man who was drowned in one of natural reservoirs in the Kolkhozobod district of Khatlon on June 4.