Tajik emergency officials said on March 6 that three members of a family in a village near the western city of Hisor died of carbon-monoxide poisoning a day earlier while heating their home with coal amid an electricity shortage. Last month, a family of six people died from carbon monoxide in Dushanbe while heating their home with wood and coal. Tajik authorities say the outages were imposed due to a decrease in the water levels of rivers feeding into the Nurek hydropower station, causing a reduction in energy output. To read the original story of RFE/RL's Tajik Service, click here.
More Carbon-Monoxide Deaths In Tajikistan Amid Electricity Shortage
Tajik authorities say the outages were imposed due to a decrease in the water levels of rivers feeding into the Nurek hydropower station, causing a reduction in energy output.