In Almaty, armed demonstrators broke into the hospital number 7, they demanded that they were assisted by their wounded associates, and after shelled the floor where the resuscitation separation was located. This is reported by “Sputnik Kazakhstan” with reference to the institution employees.
According to eyewitnesses, the incident occurred on the eve of January 7th. Doctors agreed to help the affected radicals, but the attackers had to throw them in the hospital because of the threat of the arrival of the security forces. Later, the wounded passed into the hands of Kazakh special services.
“Currently, the reception room in the hospital does not work, it is planned that his work will resume tonight. In the hospital, the military service is carried,” the agency correspondent noted.
Protests in Kazakhstan began on Sunday, January 2, due to the increase in gas prices for cars from 60 to 120 tenge (from 10 to 20 rubles) per liter. Soon, economic requirements were replaced by political: government resignation, holding new elections, consideration of the issue of 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. President Kasym-Zhomart Tokayev appealed to the CSTO with a request to send troops to protect the country from armed gangs.
later it became known that employees of the National Security Committee (CNB) of Kazakhstan could be known for the organization of pogroms and attacks on state institutions. Former head of department, Karim Masimov, was detained on suspicion of state treason.