Two killed in clashes with police in Tajikistan's east

Two people in Tajikistan's eastern city of Khorog were killed on Wednesday when police opened fire on a crowd that tried to storm a police station to free a local man held there and then went on to set fire to several government buildings, police said. Khorog, the capital of the Gorno-Badakhshan region on the border with Afghanistan, saw days of fighting in 2012 between government troops and rebels after President Imomali Rakhmon vowed to punish local warlords for the killing of a security service general. Gorno-Badakhshan has been at odds with Rakhmon for decades and his grip on the 250,000-strong region is weak. The man detained at the Khorog police building is the brother of a former warlord, a Tajik police source in the Tajik capital Dushanbe told Reuters, without saying why he had been arrested. Read More http://ift.tt/1pcPa59