DUSHANBE, October 5, 2010, Asia-Plus – Tajik law enforcement authorities say security forces have killed a third escapee from an August 23 jailbreak.

The source at one of power-wielding structures of the country told Asia-Plus that Afghan national Bazarali waladi Egamberdi, 41, was killed in Tavildara district, some 200 kilometers east of Dushanbe, today morning when he resisted government forces seeking to arrest him.  He was carrying assault rifle Kalashnikov and pistol, the source noted.

Bazarali waladi Egamberdi was sentenced to long jail term after he was convicted of illegally border crossing, drug trafficking and illegal possession of weapons.

We will recall that two other members of a group of high-profile inmates who broke out of the detention facility in Dushanbe in August – Rahmiddin Azizov and Russian national Gusein Suleymanov – were also killed.  Rahmiddin Azizov was killed in a shootout in the village of Chamorro in Fayzobod district on September 26 and Gusein Suleymanov was killed in the same district on September 28.  Both of them were killed when resisting arrest.

As it had been reported earlier, 25 convicts serving long jail terms escaped from the detention facility in the early hours of morning of August 23, killing five prison guards.  Dressing in camouflage, the escapees reportedly fled toward eastern 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.

15 jailbreak fugitives are still at large.