Powerful fire occurred in the Kyrgyz village of Kok Tash Batken region on the border with Tajikistan, more than 400 people were evacuated. It is reported by the portal 24.kg with reference to the regional administration.
Currently, rescuers are trying to eliminate fire, the area of spreading fire and the number of damaged buildings is still unknown. It is noted that the locals are accused of arson of houses of Tajiks from the surrounding villages. “From the villages of Kok-Tash and Ak-Sai people were evacuated. Residents of the neighboring country began to burn Kyrgyz at home,” quotes the portal of the word villagers.
The administration of the area temporarily sewed all the victims of the city of Batken. The number of wounded and dead is not reported.
Earlier it became known that on the border of Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan there was a shootout between the military of both sides. Dushanbe claims that the conflict broke out due to the attempts of the “illegal seizure” of the Kyrgyz side of the water distribution point in violation of the agreements previously achieved. Bishkek assures that at first special forces of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Tajikistan fired water intake from mortars, machine guns and automata.
According to preliminary data, during the conflict, more than ten Kyrgyzstan citizens have already been injured – all of them were delivered to hospitals. At least one of the hospitalized revealed firearms, the nature of the injuries of other victims is not specified.
The length of the border between Tajikistan and Kyrgyzstan is 976 kilometers, but only 504 of them were delimited and demarked. The problem exacerbates the presence of excavations in the territory of the two countries. There are often conflicts due to land, water, illegal border crossings and inter-ethnic disagreements often arise on non-evilted boundaries. During conflicts, stones are going on, sometimes incidents will develop into an armed confrontation.