DUSHANBE, February 14, Asia-Plus - A special commission comprising Tajik Interior Ministry representative to Russia Colonel Devonayev, representative from Tajik Prosecutor-General’s Office to the CIS Council of Prosecutor-General’s Offices Hotambekov and head of the Tajik Labor Ministry Representation in Russia Hasanov and Third Secretary of the Tajik Embassy in Moscow Niyaznumahhmadov is completing work on identification of nine Tajik migrants that died in a blaze in the city of Dolgoprudny, Moscow region.      

Muhammad Egamzod, press secretary of the Tajik Embassy in Moscow , told Asia-Plus this today morning. 

As it had been reported, nine Tajik migrants, residents of Hissor and Vahdat districts, died in a blaze in the city of Dolgoprudny on the night of February 5-6.  The fire broke out in a wooden hut in the compound of a fruit-and-vegetable store in the village of Khlebnikovo killing nine persons and leaving two other with burns.  The injured, Shamshod Pirov and Farhod Ishqibaqirov, were hospitalized.  Russian police instituted criminal proceedings into what caused the fire. 

Recently representatives from the commission held meeting with representatives from the prosecutor’s office for the Moscow region.  .  During the meeting it was noted the Russian law enforcement agencies were considering several versions, including carelessness.