Kazakh authorities have arrested Karim Massimov, the former head of the country’s National Security Committee, and other officials suspected of treason, the country’s National Security Committee said today, without elaborating.
Security forces on Friday said they had managed to take control of the streets of Almaty, Kazakhstan’s largest city and financial capital, after days of unrest, with Russian-backed President Kasim-Yomart Tokayev earlier in the day. had announced that it had instructed the security forces to open fire without warning against the rioters.
More than 3,800 protesters arrested
Kazakhstan’s security services have arrested 3,811 people in connection with the unrest in the country. According to the Interior Ministry, 26 participants in the incidents were killed and another 26 were injured.
A spokesman for Kazakhstan’s interior ministry said 10 security personnel had been injured in the riots, according to the Khabar-24 television network. Some of them were injured by fire, he noted.
In the previous days, there were also 33 attacks against the Fire Brigade and 30 vehicles were damaged. “The rioters attacked with stones and shot firefighters (…) who, however, managed to put out 75 fires and save 143 people,” said a spokesman for the interior ministry.
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