Intensive shootout began in Alma-Ata, RIA Novosti correspondent reports.
According to the agency, the riots resumed on the Republic Square, the central square of the former capital.
Earlier it was reported that the “critical red” level of terrorist danger was introduced throughout Kazakhstan. With it, special services are allowed to produce personal inspection and inspection, vehicles, temporarily limit or prohibit traffic, as well as freely penetrate residential and other premises.
Protests in Kazakhstan cities began on January 2. Initially, the protesters were unhappy with the increase in gas prices for cars from 60 to 120 tenge, but then everything turned into disorders with the requirements of the first President of Kazakhstan Nursultan Nazarbayev from politics, new elections and the dissolution of parliament. The most significant collisions occurred in the former capital of Alma-Ata.