Shelling of positions of the Kyrgyz border guards in Karamyk area, Chon-Alai district of Osh region, stopped at 7 p.m. The Border Service of the State Committee for National Security of Kyrgyzstan reported.
It is planned to hold the next meeting of the heads of border departments of Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan at Guliston-Avtodorozhny checkpoint today.
Emergency situation has been introduced in Batken region. Shooting began at several sites of the border between Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan on the morning of September 16. Settlements in Leilek and Batken district came under fire. The Ministry of Health reported 122 victims, 24 people were killed. As a result of the armed conflict on the Kyrgyz-Tajik border, residents of seven villages in Batken and Leilek districts, as well as Dzhekendi village in Chon-Alai district of Osh region, left their homes.
Presidents Sadyr Japarov and Emomali Rahmon agreed to ceasefire. But, according to the latest data from the Border Service of the State Committee for National Security of Kyrgyzstan, the Tajik side violated the agreements again.
