Tajikistan gold mine attack: One Chinese national dead, four injured in Cross-Border assault

A Chinese national was killed and 4 others were injured when armed men attacked workers who were employed in a Gold Mine on the night of 17/18 November 2024, in Shamsudin Shohin District of Khatlon Region, Tajikistan, an Official from Tajikistan’s Interior Ministry confirmed to The Khorasan Diary on condition of anonymity, stating that the act was a “cross border incursion from Afghanistan.”
“Few individuals from Afghanistan crossed the border into Tajik territory and fired upon a group of Chinese who were working on a gold mine project” he said.

One Chinese national has been killed while four are injured including one local Tajik.

“We are investigating the matter, but the evidence so far suggests these were drug smugglers” said the official, not ruling out the possibly of a terrorist attack either, but said evidence so far had suggested otherwise, “Now a days this is the most profitable route for drugs from Afghanistan-Tajikistan-Kyrgyzistan-Georgia and Europe” he concluded.