More than a thousand people have been injured in protests and riots that have rocked Kazakhstan for days, the health ministry said on state television today.
“More than a thousand people have been injured in the unrest in various parts of Kazakhstan, almost 400 of them are being treated and 62 are in intensive care,” Deputy Health Minister Azar Ginyat told Khabar-24 television. Interfax and TASS news.
“Dozens” protesters were killed by the police during the night that passed in their efforts to invade administrative buildings in Almaty, the largest city and economic capital of Kazakhstan, the police had announced earlier.
“Last night, extremist forces attempted to invade administrative buildings, the police headquarters in the city of Almaty, as well as local services and police stations,” said police spokesman Sultanat Azirbek, who was quoted as saying. Interfax-Kazakhstan, TASS and Ria Novosti news agencies.
“Dozens of attackers have been eliminated and their details are currently being verified,” he added.
According to him, an “anti-terrorist” operation is being carried out in one of the districts of Almaty, where the riots were the most violent.
Pictures broadcast on media and social media show shops looted and some administration buildings engulfed in flames in Almaty, with automatic weapons fired.
At the same time, Russia and its allies in the Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO) announced today the deployment of a first deployment of a “collective peacekeeping force” to Kazakhstan at the request of that country.
“A collective peacekeeping force of the Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO) has been sent to Kazakhstan for a limited period of time to stabilize and normalize the situation,” the military alliance said in a statement to the Telegram. diplomat Maria Zakharova.
Russian paratroopers have been deployed in Kazakhstan as part of the peacekeeping force, which includes troops from four other former Soviet republics, the CSTO secretariat said in a statement.
The deployment comes in response to a request from Kazakhstan’s president to help stabilize the country, which has been rocked by a wave of protests sparked by rising fuel prices.
The secretariat noted that the main task of the peacekeeping force will be to protect important state and military installations and to provide assistance to the law enforcement forces of Kazakhstan.
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