Tajikistan says two dead after clashes with Kyrgyzstan

DUSHANBE, 29 January 2022, (TON): Tajikistan said that two of its citizens were killed and 10 injured during overnight clashes at its contested border with Kyrgyzstan, where a ceasefire is now in place.

Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan said they had reached a ceasefire early Friday following the latest lethal flare up at the pair’s contested border.

The violence that broke out Thursday evening was the bloodiest escalation between the countries since clashes that killed dozens last year.

The Kyrgyz and Tajik frontier communities regularly clash over land and water supplies, with border guards often involved.

Tajikistan’s national security committee said in a statement “as a result of the latest conflict 10 people were injured on the Tajik side, of which six were servicemen and four were civilians.”

Tajikistan added that the two dead were a man born in 1986 “killed by a mortar shell fired by Kyrgyz soldiers into his yard” and an ambulance driver born in 1964.

Following the overnight clashes, Kyrgyzstan’s national security committee said that it had reached an agreement for “a complete ceasefire” with Tajikistan during a meeting at the border between provincial governors and border service representatives.

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