DUSHANBE, June 6 (AVN) - A 32-year-old citizen of Tajikistan has touched off an antipersonnel mine near the Farman-Tepa village on the border with Uzbekistan, a spokesman for the Tajik law-enforcement agencies said on Wednesday.
The man died from injuries, the spokesman told the Military News Agency. The day before, a herd of horses owned by a local animal farm and numbering up to 16 heads got on a minefield near the close-to-border village of Shakhristan, he noted.
Minefields on the northern and north-western sections of the Tajikistan-Uzbekistan border have been laid by the Uzbek party since August 2000. Uzbekistan regularly uses TOMZ mines. According to various sources, the number of people killed by mine blasts makes has reached 40, most of them are citizens of Tajikistan. A roughly equal number of people has been injured.