DUSHANBE, August 4, 2014, Asia-Plus -- One person has been killed and one another has been injured in a stabbing attack in the city of Khorog, the capital of the Gorno-Badakhshan Autonomous Region (GBAO).

According to the Interior Ministry’s website, the 24-year-old resident of Khorog, Rahul Rustambekov, attacked two residents of Khorog – Firdavs Amirshoyev, 19, and Gulasar Azimshoyev, 19 – on August 2 out of hooliganism.

Rustambekov reportedly stabbed Firdavs Amirshoyev once in the neck and stabbed Gulasar Azimshoyev once in the ribs.

Amirshoyev died on the way to hospital while Azimshoyev is still in hospital undergoing treatment for a stab wound he sustained in an August 2 attack.

Rustambekov was detained by law enforcement officers on the same day on suspicion of deliberately inflicting serious injury to health and an investigation is under way, the source said.