DUSHANBE, October 21, 2010, Asia-Plus  -- The State Committee for National Security (SCNS) has announced that two members of the banned Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan (IMU) were killed today in a security operation in Isfara district, Sughd province.

The SCNS said that two IMU members – Mukhtasar Miromonova and Nasim Akramov – were killed in the village of Childukhtaron when they resisted government forces seeking to arrest them, the source said.

“It has been established that Nasim Akramov was the mastermind of the suicide car bombing in Khujand and Mukhtasar Miromonova was the former wife of Uzbek national Rasoul Okhounov, leader of the IMU cell in Sughd who was killed in a security operation in September 2006,” the source added.

Two assault rifles Kalashnikov, one Makarov pistol, on F-1 hand grenade, more than 200 bullets and other ammunition were found in the house, where the IMU members were hiding.