DUSHANBE, August 4, 2011, Asia-Plus  -- According to information received by the representative office of Tajikistan’s Migration Service in Russia, two Tajik labor migrants were seriously injured in an accident that took place at the construction site in Moscow oblast on July 25.

The accident reportedly took place in the city of Zheleznodorozhny.  As a result of breakdown in safety procedure bitumen caught fire and two Tajik nationals – Davlatbek Sharipov, 21, from the village of Sharora in Hisor district and Hasan Karimov, 22, from Istaravshan district in Sughd province – sustained serious burn wounds and were hospitalized.

Davlatbek Sharipov who sustained more serious burn wounds is currently at the Burn Treatment Center at the N.V. Sklifosovsky Moscow Scientific-Research Institute of the First Aid, while Hasan Karimov is undergoing medical treatment at hospital in Zheleznodorozhny, the source said.