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Dushanbe, Tajikistan -- The first female member of the Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan was killed Thursday by Tajik security forces, authorities said.
Mukhtasar Miromonova and another militant, Naseem Akramov, were found in a house in a village in the Isfara district, the National Security Committee said.
"The aforesaid individuals resisted the police and were killed in a clash," the committee said, according to the Russian news agency Interfax.
Authorities said the pair have been involved in terrorism operations in the Central Asian country.
A search of the house yielded two Kalashnikov assault rifles, a Makarov pistol, a grenade and more than 200 rounds of ammunition and other ordnance, officials said. Other equipment was found in the home of Miromonova's father, officials said.
According to Interfax, Tajikistan, which borders Afghanistan, has blamed the Islamic movement for a September 3 explosion at a security office. Three police officers were killed in the blast and 28 others suffered injuries.
Miromonova was the widow of Rasul Okhunov, a leader in the Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan, who was killed during an operation in Kyrgyzstan in 2006.
The Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan, set up in Afghanistan in 1996, wants all secular governments in Central Asia to be toppled in order to become Islamic states, according to Interfax.
Tajikistan, a poor nation, has lately combated Islamic militants.
Mukhtasar Miromonova and another militant, Naseem Akramov, were found in a house in a village in the Isfara district, the National Security Committee said.
"The aforesaid individuals resisted the police and were killed in a clash," the committee said, according to the Russian news agency Interfax.
Authorities said the pair have been involved in terrorism operations in the Central Asian country.
A search of the house yielded two Kalashnikov assault rifles, a Makarov pistol, a grenade and more than 200 rounds of ammunition and other ordnance, officials said. Other equipment was found in the home of Miromonova's father, officials said.
According to Interfax, Tajikistan, which borders Afghanistan, has blamed the Islamic movement for a September 3 explosion at a security office. Three police officers were killed in the blast and 28 others suffered injuries.
Miromonova was the widow of Rasul Okhunov, a leader in the Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan, who was killed during an operation in Kyrgyzstan in 2006.
The Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan, set up in Afghanistan in 1996, wants all secular governments in Central Asia to be toppled in order to become Islamic states, according to Interfax.
Tajikistan, a poor nation, has lately combated Islamic militants.