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‘164 killed in week of Kazakh riots’
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MOSCOW, 10 January 2022, (TON): Kazakhstan’s Health Ministry said that 164 people have been killed in protests that have rocked the country over the past week.
The figures reported on the state news channel Khabar-24 are a significant rise from previous tallies.
It is not clear if the deaths refer only to civilians or if law-enforcement deaths are included.
Kazakh authorities said earlier on Sunday that 16 police or national guard had been killed.
Authorities previously gave the civilian death toll as 26.
According to the ministry “most of the deaths, 103 were in Almaty, the country’s largest city, where demonstrators seized government buildings and set some afire.”
The country’s ombudswoman for children’s rights said that three of those killed were minors, including a four-year-old girl.
The ministry earlier reported more than 2,200 people sought treatment for injuries from the protests, and the Interior Ministry said about 1,300 security officers were injured.
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