DUSHANBE, September 13, 2011, Asia-Plus  -- Chief of the military registration office in the Chorkuh Jamoat, Sughd’s Isfara district has been killed.

According to the Ministry of Interior, unidentified persons attacked the Chorkuh military registration office chief Sodiq Ashourov, 34, not far from Isfara’s police station-2 yesterday night.  “They severely beat him and escaped,” said the source at a MoI.  “Ashourov died of injuries sustained in the attack.”

Criminal proceedings have been instituted to investigate the incident and a search operation to arrest the assailants is going on.