A private nursery in Navoiy region packed 33 children into a single Damas van whose driver and director had already been penalised for the same offence, the latest in a nationwide pattern of dangerous child transport that has killed at least one child and injured many more.
Uzbekistan’s Interior Ministry has sent inspectors to gas stations and coal warehouses across Surkhandarya and Bukhara regions, following a three-day sweep in October that found 120-plus cases of illegal cylinder handling and removed 13.6 tonnes of LPG from unlawful circulation.
