A serviceman of the Border Guard Service of the State Committee for National Security of Kyrgyzstan was killed in a shooting on the border with Tajikistan. This was reported on Friday by the Kyrgyz border department, TASS reports.
“As a result of an armed attack by Tajik border guards on the border guard of the Kyrgyz Republic, a serviceman of the Border Guard Service of the State Committee for National Security of Kyrgyzstan, Sergeant Khusnidin Khozhiev, born in 1994, was killed,” the message says.
According to preliminary data, there are also dead and wounded from the Tajik side.
In Bishkek, they say that Kyrgyz soldiers were “suddenly attacked by Tajik border guards.”