more than ten buildings, including school and several residential buildings, burned in a fire that occurred because of the fights on the Kyrgyz-Tajik border. This is reported by TASS with reference to the Ministry of Emergency Situations of Kyrgyzstan.
As noted by rescuers, this information is preliminary, and the real scale of destruction to those skilled in the art will only have to evaluate. It is also known that because of the fire, one of the Kyrgyz border chokes was completely destroyed.
April 28 at the border of Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan there was a shootout between the military of both sides. Dushanbe claims that the conflict broke out due to the attempts of the “illegal seizure” of the Kyrgyz side of the water distribution point in violation of the agreements previously achieved. Bishkek assures that at first special forces of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Tajikistan fired water intake from mortars, machine guns and automata.
later the collision has grown into large-scale battles using heavy machinery and aviation. On April 29, the Ministers of Foreign Affairs of Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan managed to agree on the cease-fire. The victims of the conflict were dozens of people on both sides, hundreds of civilians were injured. The General Prosecutor’s Office of Kyrgyzstan has launched a criminal case under the article “Crime against Peace”.
The length of the border between Tajikistan and Kyrgyzstan is almost a thousand kilometers, but only about 500 of them were delimited and demarked after the collapse of the USSR. The problem exacerbates the presence of excavations in the territory of the two countries. There are often conflicts due to the land, water, illegal border crossings and inter-ethnic disagreements often occur on the underacted areas of the border.