Burnt-out building of Taldykorgan city administration NUR-SULTAN, Jan 8 Shots in the area of the detention center in Kazakhstan's Taldykorgan were still fired in the morning, Sputnik Kazakhstan reports. The correspondent of Sputnik Kazakhstan reported about shots in the area of the detention center on Friday evening. Then she clarified that the Ministry of Internal Affairs confirmed to her information about the attack on the pre-trial detention center, this attack was repulsed. «In Taldykorgan, in the morning, shots were heard in the pre-trial detention center area,» the agency reports on Saturday morning. It is noted that the rest of the situation in the city is stable. Internet — urban and mobile — no. Mass protests in Kazakhstan began in the early days of 2022 — residents of the cities of Zhanaozen and Aktau in the west of the country opposed a twofold increase in prices for liquefied gas. Then the speeches spread to other cities, including Alma-Ata, the old capital and the largest city of the republic: looting began there, militants attacked state institutions, took away weapons. In response, the authorities declared a state of emergency across the country until January 19 and launched a counter-terrorism operation. According to the UN, about 1,000 people were injured during the protests in Kazakhstan. According to the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the republic, 18 security officials were killed. On the morning of January 5, Kazakh President Kassym-Zhomart Tokayev dismissed the government and headed the republic’s Security Council, removing the first head of state, Nursultan Nazarbayev, from this post. At the first meeting of the Security Council under his leadership, Tokayev described the situation in Kazakhstan as undermining the integrity of the state and said that he had asked the CSTO for help «in overcoming the terrorist threat.» The CSTO Collective Security Council decided to send collective peacekeeping forces to Kazakhstan to normalize the situation in the country. On January 7, Tokayev said that terrorists, including those who arrived from abroad, continued to resist, and promised to destroy those who did not lay down their arms. In addition, the President noted that all the demands of citizens, expressed in peaceful forms, were heard.
