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Skirmish on Kyrgyz-Tajik border leaves one dead

12 August 2014 15:12 (UTC+04:00)
Skirmish on Kyrgyz-Tajik border leaves one dead

By Aynur Jafarova

A skirmish occurred on the Kyrgyz-Tajik border last week left one person dead, local media reported.

On August 10, Tajikistan's border representative in Jirgatal informed the Kyrgyz border guards that on August 9 at 17.30 a skirmish occurred between the border guards of Tajikistan and three unknown armed persons.

The skirmish took place in the village of Tupakul, as a result of which one Kyrgyz citizen was killed.

The Tajik side also said two Kyrgyz citizens were arrested. Meanwhile a hunting rifle of 7.62 mm caliber with 8 cartridges, one small-bore rifle of TOZ-8 model, as well as some foreign-made glasses were found at the scene.

One person was killed and two others arrested. They were residents of Kyrgyzstan's Chon-Alay district of Osh region.

According to preliminary report, the Kyrgyz citizens were hunting in the territory of Tajikistan.

Currently, this incident is under investigation, and works to return the two detained Kyrgyz citizens are underway.

This is not the first incident on the Tajik-Kyrgyz border. Clashes along the border occurred several times in 2013 as well. On May 7, a clash occurred between the two countries' citizens on the Tajik-Kyrgyz border on a motor road running from the Isfara town to the municipality of Vorukh near the Kyrgyz village of Kuktosh.

As a result of the clash, about 60 people from both sides were injured. The clash began after a group of drunken Kyrgyz men stoned the car of a Vorukh resident. Later, Tajik and Kyrgyz sides attacked each other with stones.

In January, an armed clash occurred between the servicemen of the State Border Service of Kyrgyzstan and border troops of the Tajik State National Security Committee near the main water intake structure of Batken region in Kyrgyzstan's Batken province.

Most areas along borders in Central Asia are still tense after the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991.

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