DUSHANBE, February 6, 2012, Asia-Plus  -- According to the Tajik Embassy in Moscow, the bodies of two Tajik nationals were returned to Tajikistan from Russia on February 3.

“One of them – 19-year-old resident of the city of Kulob Samariddin Bobokhon, died of an illness in hospital at the town of Odintsovo, while the second one – 43-year-old Tohir Karimov from Khatlon’s Bokhtar district – was killed in a fight at the town of Odintsovo,” the source said.

According to him, resident of Odintsovo Yuri Pronchenkov was arrested on suspicion of having killed Karimov.  “The Odintsovo law enforcement authorities say it was a domestic murder,” the source added.