NUR-SULTAN, Jan 15 Among those who applied to medical facilities during the unrest in Kazakhstan there were people who did not speak either Kazakh or Russian, and after receiving assistance, they left hospitals without permission, said Asel Artakshinova, director of the public relations department of the Ministry of Health. «There were cases when the victims did not understand and did not answer the questions of doctors left medical organizations without permission, even left intensive care units accompanied by unknown armed persons,» she said at a press conference on Saturday.
There are foreigners among those detained in Kazakhstan, said the CSTO Secretary General Later, the protests 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 throughout the country until January 19 and launched a counter-terrorism operation. According to the country's Prosecutor General's Office, 4,578 people were injured as a result of the riots, 225 people were killed, including 19 security officials. On the morning of January 5, Kazakh President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev dismissed the government and headed the Security Council. 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 for help from the CSTO «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 announced that the terrorists, including those who had 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. unrest
