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Operation to wipe out armed gang underway in Uzbekistan

IRNA - Islamic Republic News Agency

Tashkent, March 30, Itar-Tass/ACSNA/IRNA -- The operation to wipe out 
an armed gang is well underway in the Kibrai district, Tashkent 
Region, Tass reports from the place of the incident. 
Law enforcement officers fenced off the gang at a dwelling house. 
One of the commandos told Tass that there are casualties on both 
sides in the clash. 
According to information from the republican Interior Ministry, 
terrorists who attacked a motor traffic police post, situated 15 
kilometers from Tashkent, were fenced off by policemen in a nearby 
house. All approaches to the house are cordoned by police. 
This morning, bandits activated an explosive device near the motor
traffic police post in the Kibrai district, Tashkent Region. The 
terrorists opened fire on policemen right after the blast. Then, 
police officers fenced off the bandits at a nearby house. 
The Central Asian information center reported that terrorists 
blasted, simultaneously with the clash at the motor traffic post in 
the Kibrai district, a minibus in the Bostanlyk district, Tashkent 
Region, near the dam of the Charvaksky water reservoir. It is a 
strategic project. If the dam is exploded, the so-called Charvaksky 
Sea can fully inundate the Uzbek capital. Official sources have not 
confirmed this incident so far. 
All entries to and exits from Tashkent are blocked now. 
All markets closed, and police thoroughly inspect suspicious cars 
and pedestrians. People are not panicky, but usually crowded streets 
look noticeably deserted. 
People to not go to streets without special need. Traffic by buses
and commuter trains stopped between cities of the Tashkent Region. 
The Tuesday events confirmed a statement by President Islam 
Karimov who stated on Monday live in a televised address that the 
terrorist acts in Uzbekistan had been thoroughly engineered as 
large-scale and well-organized events. 
Karimov noted: "Facts show above all that preparation for a series
of terror acts in Tashkent and its suburbia had been conducted 
thoroughly for a long time. We witness here experience of gunmen, 
acting to spread fear and panic among population and to take lives of 
innocent civilians." 
/AH/210 
End