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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
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Via AP news wire

Tajik man who fatally shot 2 at Moldova airport is wanted in a kidnapping case in his native country

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A Tajikistan national who fatally shot two security officers at Moldova’s main international airport is wanted in his native country in relation to the kidnapping of a local bank official, Tajik authorities said.

The General Prosecutor’s Office of Tajikistan named the assailant as Rustam Ashurov, saying he is a member of an “organized criminal group” that on June 23 kidnapped the deputy chairman of a Tajik bank in Dushanbe, the country’s capital.

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