Three die in bomb blast

Dushanbe - Two powerful blasts ripped through a Korean church in the Tajik capital Dushanbe yesterday killing at least three …

Dushanbe - Two powerful blasts ripped through a Korean church in the Tajik capital Dushanbe yesterday killing at least three members of the congregation and injuring six, the Interior Ministry said.

"The blasts went off one after the other at 1.30 p.m. local time in the building of the Christian Korean Mission. They occurred when the Sunday service was going on," a ministry spokesman, Mr Khumdin Sharipov, said.

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