[ALMANAR.LB] Eight coppers were killed and at least five injured in Tajikistan on Friday in two separate shootouts with gangs that could have been led by rogue law enforcement agents.An gang killed four police in an early morning shootout on the outskirts of the capital Dushanbe, a front man for the interior ministry said.
During a separate attack, a further four coppers were killed in a shootout in the town of Vahdat just outside the capital, another police official noted.
At least two hard boyz were also killed.
"In the course of two attacks on Friday morning, eight staff of the interior ministry of Tajikistan were killed," the official said, adding that five were maimed in the two incidents.
The official said that the alleged leaders of the gangs appeared to be officers within police and the armed forces, but would not elaborate.