In Almaty, the military on the BTR and armored personnel carriers surrounded the participants of the protests in the city center, reports Telegram-channel “Sputnik Kazakhstan”.
“Military on the BTR and armored vehicles took into the Ring of Pogromists in the center of Almaty,” the report says.
Earlier, eyewitnesses said that the shooting is heard in Kazakhstan in Kazakhstan. On video published by Sputnik, the automata lines are allegedly audible. The Telegram channel Kaztag said that in Alma-Ata in the morning on Thursday, January 6, the operation on the large-scale stripping of the city from the marauders and instigators of the riots will begin. Against the backdrop of protests in the settlement, pogroms and looting began, about 400 cafes, shops and offices were looted.
Protests began against the background of increasing fuel prices when liquefied gas for cars began to cost 120 tenge instead of 60 per liter (the price rose from 10 to 20 rubles).