On June 3, a shootout occurred again at the Tajik-Kyrgyz border. Photo: Internet In the village of Puli Oftobruy, 10 km from the center of the jamoat, a shootout occurred between Tajik and Kyrgyz border guards. According to Asia-Plus, citing its source in the village of Vorukh, the shootout began after Kyrgyz border guards crossed […]
On June 3, a shootout occurred again at the Tajik-Kyrgyz border.
Photo: InternetIn the village of Puli Oftobruy, 10 km from the center of the jamoat, a shootout occurred between Tajik and Kyrgyz border guards.
According to Asia-Plus, citing its source in the village of Vorukh, the shootout began after Kyrgyz border guards crossed into territory controlled by Tajik border guards.
The source reports that Tajik border guards initially warned them to leave the territory, but they ignored this demand. After that, a verbal altercation ensued between the border guards, followed by the shootout.
A source from Azda TV in the Vorukh jamoat described the events at the border:
“This morning, there was no electricity on the Tajik side of the border, and the border guards called an electrician. When the electrician climbed the pole, Kyrgyz snipers shot at him, and then shot at a Tajik border guard standing next to him, hitting him in the neck. Shortly after, he died. The electrician is still alive and has been hospitalized in Vorukh. If he is not taken to the central hospital in the city of Isfara, he will likely die.”
However, the press service of the State Committee for National Security of Kyrgyzstan reports that today in the Bulak-Bashy area of the Batken region, a border patrol discovered Tajik servicemen. They illegally crossed the conditional border line and entered Kyrgyz territory.
According to the Kyrgyz side, ignoring demands to leave the territory, Tajik border guards opened fire on Kyrgyz servicemen. A shootout occurred between the patrols of the two countries, during which the Tajik side allegedly used mortars.
Kyrgyz border guards claim that Tajik border guards opened fire on Kyrgyz servicemen, disregarding the demand from Kyrgyz border guards to leave the territory of the country. A clash occurred between the border guards of the two countries, with the Tajik side allegedly using mortars.
It is reported that despite the fact that at 14:07 the border units of both countries received an order to cease fire, the Tajik side continued to shell the positions of the Kyrgyz side until 14:15.
“The shootout has ended, there are wounded on both sides,” noted the State Committee for National Security of Kyrgyzstan.
A source from Azda TV reported that the Tajik side did not conduct any military actions and did not fire a single shot. No military equipment has been deployed to the border. “Even our border guards at the border, who were attacked, were not given an order to open fire. However, the Kyrgyz side is always in a state of war and immediately fires to kill if they see the slightest movement from Tajikistan,” said the source.
Official authorities in Tajikistan have not yet commented on the incident.