Servicemen on the border of Kyrgyzstan and TajikistanDUSHANBE, Jan 27, Lidia Isamova. During an armed incident On the Tajik-Kyrgyz border on the Isfara-Batken road, a resident of the Tajik village of Khoji Alo died from a gunshot wound, RIA Novosti was told in the Hukumat of the city of Isfara. the source said.According to him, 5 wounded were hospitalized in the central hospital of Isfara, including two border guards.Earlier on Thursday, the border service of Kyrgyzstan announced the beginning of a shootout between Kyrgyz and Tajik border guards. According to the agency, the Tajik side uses grenade launchers and mortars. The cause of the conflict was the blocking of the highway connecting the Kyrgyz cities of Isfana and Batken by the Tajik military. The border between Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan periodically becomes a zone of conflict between local residents and border guards of the two countries. The reason for this is the non-delimited areas where it is impossible to determine how the border between states runs.
