KHUJAND, December 31, 2011, Asia-Plus  -- According to the Sughd police directorate, unidentified assailants, who killed the employee of the currency exchange office and his son in Khujand seized 200,000 somoni.

We will recall that an employee of one of currency exchange offices in Khujand, Yuldosh Burhonov, 53, and his 28-year-old son Farhodjon were found shot to death in Burhonov’s car opposite the Panjshanbe Bazaar in Khujand Wednesday (December 28) evening.

The Interior Ministry spokesman Mahmadullo Asaduloyev says that according to the Sughd police directorate unidentified assailants shot Burhonov and his son to death from the Kalashnikov assault rifle.   

The Khujand prosecutor’s office has launched investigation into the incident.  Criminal proceedings have been instituted under the provisions of two articles of Tajikistan’s Penal Code: Article 104 (2) – murder; and Article 249 (4) – armed robbery involving use of a weapon.

According to data from the Sughd police directorate, 31 murders and eight attempted murders have been reported in northern Tajikistan over the first eleven months of this year.