KHUJAND, November 19, 2013, Asia-Plus -- On the occasion of the anniversary of formation of the Interior Ministry organized crime control department (UBOP)’s office in Sughd, Sughd regional administrators have visited families of those who were killed in a suicide car-bomb attack in Khujand, the capital of Sughd province.

We will recall that on September 3, 2010, Akmal Karimov drove a car packed with explosives into the main gate of the Sughd regional organized crime control division in Khujand, killing himself and two others and injuring 28 people.  The vehicle was driven at high speed into the gated compound of the organized crime control division -- as the gate was closing after two police cars entered the complex -- and the car exploded.  It was the first-ever such suicide bombing reported in Tajikistan.

Suicide bomber Akmal Karimov was born in Istaravshan but lived in Khujand.  Officials say Karimov was charged with kidnapping in 2009 but left the country and underwent training at terrorist camps in Afghanistan.

Members of the Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan (IMU) have been accused of planning and participating in the 2010 suicide car-bomb attack.