In the building of the Almaty administration, which the storms took protesters, a fire began. It is reported by the Telegram channel RBC with reference to the Cassetag data.
According to information, the building of the prosecutor’s office is also burning. In addition, smoke is visible above the presidential residence building.
Earlier it was reported that in the morning of January 5, the protests in another Kazakhstan city, Aktobe, captured the akimat building.
January 2, in Kazakhstan, protests began against the growth of prices for fuel, on January 4, a collision of protesters with security forces occurred on the republic’s Square in Almaty. Law enforcement officers were used to overclock the protests tear gas and light grenades. In Alma-Ata and in the Mangystau region, an emergency regime was introduced in the Mangystau region, during the period of emergency regime announced a curfew from 23.00 to 7.00.
Against the background of the protests, President of Kazakhstan Kasim-Zhomart Tokayev sent the government of the republic, and also instructed to introduce public regulation of liquefied gas, gasoline, diesel and socially significant products for a period of 180 days.