DUSHANBE, Tajikistan (AP) — News reports say a suicide car bomb blast has torn through police offices in Tajikistan's second-largest city, injuring 25 people.
The Interior Ministry confirmed to The Associated Press that an explosion hit the offices of the police organized-crime division in Khujand on Friday morning. It did not give further details.
Russia's state news agency RIA Novosti cited Interior Ministry chief of staff Takhir Normatov as saying that 25 people were injured. He said the bomber, who was killed, drove his car into the office compound's gates when another vehicle was leaving.
Impoverished Tajikistan is plagued by crime. The country bordering northern Afghanistan is one of the main conduits for smuggling Afghan opium and heroin.
