Both the small impoverished landlocked nations have accused each other of restarting fighting in a disputed area, despite a ceasefire deal.
In a statement, the Kyrgyz border service said its forces were continuing to repel Tajik attacks.
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According to the Kyrgyz side, on Friday morning, shots erupted from the Tajik side in seven districts and at the Samarkandek outpost. Strikes using multiple-launch rocket systems (MLRS) were delivered on the city of Batken and its airport. Kyrgyzstan reported 24 people killed and 87 wounded.
ReplyDeleteTensions on the border between Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan escalated on September 14. Tajik border guard units penetrated into an undefined area of the border near the Bulak-Bashi area of Kyrgyzstan’s Batken Region and "took up fighting positions". In response to the Kyrgyz servicemen’s demand to leave the area, the Tajik officers opened fire. A shootout ensued. A few hours later armed clashes also occurred in the Kak-Sai and Pasky-Aryk areas of the Batken Region. By late afternoon, the shootouts had ceased. The Kyrgyz side said two servicemen were wounded and three civilians were injured.
The Tajik military fired mortars at the Kyrgyz village of Pasky-Aryk, the press office of the Kyrgyz State Committee for National Security (UKMK) told Sputnik on Saturday.
ReplyDelete"In violation of agreements reached earlier, from 8:50 a.m. to 8:55 a.m. (local time, from 02:50 to 02:55 GMT), the Tajik side fired mortars at the village of Pasky-Aryk in the Batken Region," the office's spokesperson said.
As of 9:00 a.m. on Friday, the situation on the Kyrgyz-Tajik border remains tense, he added.
"Personnel of the units of the border guard service of Kyrgyzstan's UKMK, deployed in the Batken Region, are taking measures to stabilize the existing situation," the spokesperson said.
He added that the night on the Kyrgyz-Tajik border, where fierce armed clashes took place between the armed forces of the two countries on Friday, "passed quietly, without incidents."