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By Aynur Jafarova

Kyrgyz Foreign Ministry has condemned the violence which took place along the Tajik-Kyrgyz border on May 7.

Tajik Ambassador to Kyrgyzstan Olim Rahimov was recalled to the ministry and the note of the protest of Kyrgyzstan was handed over to him.

During the meeting, the Kyrgyz Foreign Minister called for taking relevant measures to identify and punish the perpetrators of the violence and compensate for the material damage to the Kyrgyz citizens.

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 cause of the clash was that a group of drunken Kyrgyz men stoned car of a Vorukh resident.

Later, Tajik and Kyrgyz sides attacked each other with stones.

Tajikistan's Interior Ministry has launched investigators into the occurred incident.

A special investigation group, led by the Chief of the Interior Ministry's office in Sughd, Major-General Sharif Nazarov, is currently investigating into the clash.

Investigators are questioning local residents and witnesses of the clash.

The situation along the Tajik-Kyrgyz border is under control now. Patrols of Tajik and Kyrgyz border guards and police officers are preventing further escalation of clashes.

This is not the first incident on the Tajik-Kyrgyz border. 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.

Clashes along the border occurred several times in 2013 as well. Most areas along borders in Central Asia are still tense after the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991.