Translated with AI
Eleven people, including a young child, have died in traffic accidents in various regions of Tajikistan over three days, and several others have been seriously injured, the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Republic reported.
According to the Ministry of Internal Affairs, on July 2, 2025, at approximately 17:40, the driver of a Daewoo-CIELO, Karabekov Bakhtiyorzhon Tuygunovich, born in 1993, a resident of Penjikent, while driving along the Penjikent-Ayni highway near the central hospital of Penjikent, lost control and collided with a scooter driven by Tagoev Inom Ilkhomovich, born in 2004, a resident of Penjikent. As a result, the scooter driver received bodily injuries and died at the scene of the accident.
Also, on July 3, 2025, at approximately 04:00, the driver of the Mercedes-Ateco, Rasulov Shokhrukh, born in 1993, a resident of the city of Penjikent, lost control on the 14th kilometer of the Aini-Penjikent highway, drove to the left side of the road, fell into a ravine 100 meters deep and drowned in the Zarafshan River. His passenger, Khakdodov Bakhtovar Niyatkulovich, born in 1994, a resident of the city of Penjikent, received serious bodily injuries and died at the scene of the accident.
On July 4, at about 19:30, on the 206th kilometer of the Dushanbe-Khujand-Chanak highway near the city of Istaravshan, the driver of an Opel Astra, Rustam Khudoiberdiev, born in 2006, a resident of the Shakhristan district, lost control of the car, drove onto the side of the road, as a result of which the vehicle overturned. The driver died at the scene. Three passengers – Jumanazarov Nekruz (born in 2005), Karoyev Zoirjon (born in 2005) and Voidov Farrukh (born in 2003) – were taken to the hospital with serious injuries.
On the same day, at about 21:10, at the 205th kilometer of the same highway, a head-on collision of two Mercedes-Benz trucks occurred. The driver of one of them, Ashurov Kenja, born in 1980, a resident of Istaravshan, allowed a collision with another truck, driven by Turdiboev Javlon, born in 1995. As a result of the accident, the driver Turdiboev and three passengers died – Djovid Turdiboev (born in 2000), Dzhavahir Turdiboev (born in 2006) and Dilorom Turdiboeva (born in 1975), all residents of the city of Istaravshan.
On July 5, at about 04:30 in the village of P. Sangin in the city of Nurek, a Mercedes-Benz 13-28 truck, in which there was a passenger, Ziyodullo Azizov (born in 1990, a resident of Rudaki), collided with a Dulan vehicle, driven by Nazarali Kenjaev (born in 1980, a resident of Gissar). The passengers of the Mercedes – Nazarkulov Umarali and Eshonov Alisher, both born in 1997 – died on the spot from their injuries.
At about 07:10 in the rural jamoat of Istiklol, J. Balkhi district, the driver of an Opel Combo, Gulmurod Aliyev (born in 2004), hit a one-and-a-half-year-old girl, Marhabo Menglieva, while reversing. The child died from her injuries.
In addition, on the same day at about 08:00 on the Dushanbe-Tursunzoda road, a Toyota Avalon driven by Shavkatjon Urokov (born in 1998, a resident of Gissar) hit a pedestrian, local resident Fozila Anoraeva (born in 1999), who was hospitalized with injuries.
All the facts of the accidents are being investigated. The causes and circumstances of the accidents that occurred are being established.
