Tajikistan says the gunman is wanted in a kidnapping case in his native country.
A 43-year-old Tajik man grabbed a gun, shot dead two security officers and wounded a civilian at Moldova’s main international airport on Friday after being denied entry to the country, according to authorities.
The suspected assailant was himself wounded and apprehended, police said on Friday, in an incident that briefly grounded flights at Chisinau International Airport.
On Saturday, the General Prosecutor’s Office of Tajikistan named the assailant as Rustam Ashurov, saying he was a member of an “organised criminal group” that on June 23 kidnapped the deputy chairman of a Tajik bank in Dushanbe, the country’s capital.