DUSHANBE: A suicide bomber blew himself up at a police station in northern Tajikistan on Friday, killing at least one person and wounding 20, a police source said.
“There were people in the building and it's now burning,” the source, who spoke on condition of anonymity, told Reuters.
He said the death toll was likely to rise but that it was not immediately clear if the dead included the suicide bomber.
The attack occurred in Khujand, about 340 km north of the capital Dushanbe and near the border with Uzbekistan.
Governments in the former Soviet republics of Central Asia are clamping down on what they see as growing radicalism in the predominantly Muslim, though secular, region after a rise in clashes between security forces and armed groups.
Tajikistan, which has a porous 1,340-km border with Afghanistan, has jailed 115 people this year on charges of belonging to banned groups, mostly Islamic.
Last month, 10 followers of a banned Islamic group were jailed in Khujand for terms of three to 15 years.
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