DUSHANBE, July 18, 2016, Asia-Plus – Kyrgyzstan has reportedly tightened control of its common border with Kazakhstan after a gun attack in Kazakhstan’s commercial capital Almaty.
Quoting Kyrgyz border service chief Abdikarim Alimbaeyv, KirTAG Afghanistan has reported that Kyrgyz border troops were put on alert.
According to Alimbayev, additional forces have been concentrated at the border crossing points on the Kyrgyz-Kazakh border.
Almat is located not far from us, and therefore, we have to tighten control of our border,” Kyrgyz border service chief was quoted as saying.
CBC News reports that a gunman killed three policemen and one civilian in Kazakhstan''s financial hub Almaty on Monday.
The 27-year-old attacker, who was detained, also wounded two more policemen and is suspected of committing another murder last weekend, Kazakhstan’s Interior Ministry said in a statement, adding that he had an accomplice who was still at large.
Several policemen have also been wounded.
Kazakh authorities described the violence as a terrorist attack and blamed it on radical Islamists.
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