Attackers with knives and guns kill four tourists on cycling trip in Tajikistan
The tourists, from the United States, Switzerland and the Netherlands, were killed. Three more, from Switzerland, the Netherlands and France, were injured – one of them also had a stab wound
Four foreign tourists were killed in Tajikistan by armed attackers in what may be a terrorist act, the interior minister said Monday.
“(The suspects) had knives and firearms,” minister Ramazon Hamro Rahimzoda said of the attack that left tourists from the United States, Switzerland and the Netherlands dead and two others injured on Sunday.
The dead were on a cycling tour in the impoverished ex-Soviet nation, in a group with three other tourists from Switzerland, the Netherlands and France.
“One tourist received a knife wound and is being given medical help. The victim’s condition is stable,” said Rahimzoda without mentioning nationality.
Another was being treated in hospital, while the French citizen survived without injury and was being questioned by the police, he added.
Two suspects in the case were killed after they “resisted arrest” and a further four have been detained, the minister said.