Tajik special forces on Sunday detained two more of the 25 high-risk prisoners who escaped from a top security detention facility last month, a State Committee for National Security spokesperson said.
Twenty-five dangerous criminals, including six Russian citizens, escaped from the remand prison of the State Committee of National Security of Tajikistan on the night on August 23, killing six guards and seizing a number of weapons before fleeing.
Just six of the fugitives have been caught. The identities of the most recent detainees were not made public.
According to security officials, the escape was organized by three prisoners: 36-year-old Ibrokhimov Nasriddinov - a former prisoner of the U.S. prison at Guantanamo Bay - his compatriot Khikmat Azizov, 37, and Magomed Akhmedov, 37, from Dagestan.
They were sentenced on August 20 to lengthy prison terms for murder, criminal conspiracy, hostage taking, illegal possession of firearms and the use of violence against an elected government.
Akhmedov and Zaydullo Azizov were detained on Saturday, the former in a market in the center of Dushanbe, the latter in a park on the outskirts of the Tajik capital.
The first two escapees to be caught were Nasriddinov and Abdurasul Mirzoyev, the brother of the former head of the Presidential Guard Ghafor Mirzoyev. Both were detained in the Vahdat District east of Dushanbe.
DUSHANBE, September 12 (RIA Novosti)
