Pubdate: Thu, 05 Apr 2001 Source: Australian Broadcasting Corporation (Australia Web) Copyright: 2001 Australian Broadcasting Corporation Contact: http://www.abc.net.au/ Details: http://www.mapinc.org/media/34 TWO KILLED IN BOMB BLAST IN DUSHANBE A bomb blast has killed at least two people and injured five others in Dushanbe, the capital of the central Asian nation of Tajikistan. The bomb went off in a shop and police quickly surrounded the building. It was not immediately known whether the blast was linked to the drug trade in the former Soviet republic. Tajikistan is a major route for narcotics from Afghanistan and has been overrun by crime since its independence. - --- MAP posted-by: Jo-D