Shooting at border: Wounded servicemen transported to Bishkek

10:28, 04 июня 2022, Bishkek - 24.kg news agency , Ruslan KHARIZOV

Servicemen who were wounded on the Kyrgyz-Tajik border were transported to Bishkek. The press center of the State Committee for National Security of Kyrgyzstan reported.

Two wounded border guards were brought to the capital under the control of the head of the State Committee for National Security Kamchybek Tashiev. They were hospitalized in medical facilities, where they will continue to receive all the necessary assistance.

«Kamchybek Tashiev keeps the issue of providing all assistance to the wounded servicemen of the Border Service of the State Committee for National Security under personal control,» the state committee said.

Shooting on the Kyrgyz-Tajik border took place on Friday at about noon in Bulak-Bashy area of Batken region. Border detachment of Kyrgyzstan discovered the military of the neighboring republic. They illegally crossed the conventional border line and entered the territory of Kyrgyzstan. Ignoring the demands to leave the territory, the Tajik border guards opened fire at the Kyrgyz servicemen. Border detachments of the two countries exchanged fire, during which the Tajik side used mortars. Two Kyrgyz servicemen were wounded.