Kazakhstan President Kasim-Zhomart Tokayev said that at least six waves of the attacks of terrorists occurred in Almaty. This was announced on his page in twitter .
“There were at least six waves of terrorist attacks in Alma-Ata, their total number of 20 thousand,” he wrote.
Tokayev noted that the bandits and terrorists were well trained, organized, and they were commanded from a special center. According to politics, some of them were not spoken in Kazakh.
Protests in Kazakhstan began on Sunday, January 2, due to the increase in gas prices for cars. The cost of the liter rose from 60 to 120 tenge (from 10 to 20 rubles). Soon economic requirements were replaced by political. The protesters demanded the resignation of the government, holding new elections, as well as consideration of the issue of the lustration of people from the “clan” of the former President of Nursultan Nazarbayev.
To Wednesday, January 5, rallies have grown into bulk riots. In Alma-Ata, shops, banks were plundered, captured by the airport building, police plots, government agencies and infrastructure facilities. Army was sent to suppressing speeches. In the republic, a red level of terrorist danger was introduced.