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DUSHANBE, September 13, 2010, Asia-Plus – The State Committee for National Security (GKNB) reported on September 12 that security officers have captured two other escaped prisoners.

The escapees were recaptured in Jomi district, Khatlon province.  They are the 32-year-old Saidismon Khoujayev and the 33-year-old Tolibsho Naimov.

As it had been reported earlier, two other escapees were captured on September 10 in Dushanbe’s Victory Party within the space of several hours.  The detainees are Zaydullo Azizov and Russian citizen Magomed Akhmedov.  A large consignment of weapons was confiscated from the captured prisoners.

We will recall that 25 convicts serving long jail terms escaped from the GKNB-run pretrial detention facility in the early hours of morning of August 23, killing five prison guards.  Dressing in camouflage, the escapees reportedly fled toward the east of Tajikistan.  The majority of the fugitives were among 46 people convicted by the Supreme Court on August 19 of terrorism, drug trafficking, and seeking the forcible overthrow of the government.  The prisoners reportedly took advantage of the negligence of the jail warden.

Tajik law enforcement authorities said on September 2 that they had recaptured one escapee in Vahdat district, 20 kilometers east of Dushanbe.  His is Ibrohim Nasriddinov also known as Qori Ibrohim.  Makarov pistol and F-1 hand grenade were confiscated from him.  On September 6, government security officials captured Abdurasoul Mirzoyev in Fayzobod district, some 50 kilometers east of Dushanbe.  Abdurasoul is the brother of jailed former presidential-guard commander Ghaffor Mirzoyev who also headed the Tajik counternarcotics agency.  On September 7, a group of the escaped prisoners reportedly exchanged gunfire with government forces in Romit Gorge, Vahdat district.  As a result of the gunfire, warrant of Tajik National Guard was killed.

19 other escapees are still at large and the search operation for the escaped prisoners is going on.