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Car
bomb
rocks
Tajik
capital
A powerful blast has rocked the centre of the Tajik capital Dushanbe in what appears to be a car bomb placed near the central Asian state's emergencies ministry.
One reporter
said
on
Monday
he
had
seen the
head
of
man
lying
on
the
road
and
car
parts
scattered all
around. Four
people
in
a
taxi
were
also
caught
up
in
the
blast and
suffered
concussions
about one
kilometre from
the
palace
of
President
Imomali
Rakhmonov. Speaking
from
the
scene,
Emergencies
Minister
Mirzo
Ziyoyev
said
there
were
no
other
reports
of
casualties. But
several
cars
parked
nearby
had
been
burned
by
the
blast,
which
shattered
windows
in
surrounding
buildings
and
mangled
metal
grates
in
front
of
the
windows
of
the
emergencies
ministry
building. The
area
was
cordoned
off
by
police
and
firefighters
were
at
the
scene. Tajikistan,
an
impoverished
Muslim
state
of
7
million
which
neighbours
Afghanistan,
is
due
to
hold
a
parliamentary
election
on
27
February. The
country,
which
lost
more
than
100,000
people
in
a
1992-97
civil
war,
has
since
been
relatively
stable
although
kidnappings
continue
and
crime
is
rampant.
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