10:00, 16 сентября 2022, Bishkek - 24.kg news agency , Maria ORLOVA
Four border guards were wounded as a result of the conflict on the Kyrgyz-Tajik border. The head of Batken region Abdikarim Alimbaev told 24.kg news agency.
There are no civilian casualties so far, he said.
Abdikarim Alimbaev noted that he had talked with the governor of Sughd region about a ceasefire. «The Tajik side is firing almost along the entire border. They are shooting from mortars, large-caliber weapons,» he said.
Shooting started at several sites of the border between Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan on the morning of September 16. According to the Border Service of the State Committee for National Security, at about 6 a.m. the Tajik side started firing at the border detachments and the positions of the Kyrgyz side in the areas of Eki-Tash, Chyr-Dobo, Kum-Mazar and Orto-Boz from small arms and group weapons. At 6.30 a.m., the Tajik side began mortar shelling in the area of responsibility of Kok-Tash border outpost of Batken border detachment. At 7.15 a.m., Tajik servicemen began firing at Samarkandek border outpost.