A supporter of the killing of 4 foreign tourists in Tajikistan

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Sunday's attack also killed two Swiss and a Dutchman in Dengara district, 150 km south of Dushanbe.

The group of seven tourists was stunned when they cycled in a region with spectacular natural landscapes.

The authorities confirmed that tourists were attacked and that the attackers "carried knives and firearms".

Interior Minister Ramadan Hamro Rahimzadeh told reporters, "We are studying all the assumptions," including the possibility that the motive for the attack is the motive of the "attack." attack, not to mention explicitly a terrorist attack. To ensure the safety of citizens and tourists. "

In several statements, the police confirmed that they arrested four suspects and four others were killed during the search of the perpetrators.One of the dead, a 21-year-old Tajik, would have been the owner of the car , which would have shocked tourists, Jaafaruddin Yusovov

The President of Tajikistan, Imam Ali Rakhmonov, sent on Monday his condolences to the United States, Switzerland and the Netherlands. </ p> <p> The attack, affirming in a statement that a unit of soldiers called "caliphate" launched an attack against the citizens "of the countries of the Crusaders' alliance", according to his statement.

A French tourist who was in the group survived. That the police interrogated him and that the French Embassy in Tajikistan "is working to facilitate his return to

The Minister of the Interior of Tajikistan said that one of the tourists wounded had been stabbed at the hospital and placed "ecuri e ".

The Belgian tourist Nicolas Muermann, arrived at the scene of the attack on the bicycle, said: Some of them are completely shocked. "I asked what had happened, and the first thing that was told me was that they were beaten and that the men stabbed them. "

The Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs has stated that the 56-year-old Dutchman was killed with his 58-year-old Dutch partner.

In turn, the Swiss Ministry of Foreign Affairs called for a "clarification" of the circumstances of this "dangerous" act.

In the first five months of 2018, the number of tourists quadrupled in Tajikistan in one year, according to the president who led this small country. Central Asia since 1992. The number of tourists was 414 000 in 2015 according to the World Bank.

Tajikistan, with a Muslim majority, adopted in 2016 a simplified system allowing citizens of 80 countries to stay in the country. obtain an electronic visa immediately.