The Interior Ministry has denied that a man committed suicide outside the Dushanbe mayor’s office on April 11.

“Such an incident has not been registered by the Interior Ministry.  It is unknown from where this rumor came,” the Interior Ministry spokesman Umarjon Emomali told Asia-Plus Friday afternoon.

Meanwhile, users of social networks wrote on April 11 that a man of about 40 years old has committed suicide outside the mayor’s new office, the former presidential palace, at around 4:30 pm by cutting his own throat.

According to some sources, he was earning his living by driving a 3-somoni taxi but he lost his job after the 3-somoni taxis had been banned in Dushanbe.  

He reportedly came to the mayor’s office on April 11 in order to meet with anybody of its senior representatives.  But they allegedly turned him out without listening to him.