Tajik television reported that Bahrullo Mingboyev was...

Tajik television reported that Bahrullo Mingboyev was sentenced to death by the Supreme Court. It was alleged that on 5 October 1997, Bahrullo Mingboyev killed fellow villagers Nusrat Bobokalonov and Barotali Valiyev, from the Chortut settlement, with particular brutality and the use of a Makarov pistol, which he kept illegally. After committing the crime he brought the corpses to the Lenin District were he buried them.