[RFE/RL] Tajik authorities say an explosion near a military court in the nation's south has killed one person. The Interior Ministry said the blast struck a school near the Khatlon military court in the southern city of Qurghon-Teppa, where thousands of Russian troops are based. The Interior Ministry said a 67-year-old man, who worked as a guard at the school next to the court building, was killed by an explosive device that was detonated on the evening of March 12. It was not clear if the man -- identified as Hasanboi Rahmonov, an ethnic Uzbek -- had detonated the explosives himself.
Qurghon-Teppa, as well as Kulob and Dushanbe, are sites in Tajikistan, where some 7,000 troops from Russia's 201st Motorized Rifle Division are stationed.