Servicemen on the border of Kyrgyzstan and TajikistanBISHKEK, Jan 27 against the backdrop of a shootout on the border with Tajikistan, they were transferred to emergency mode, the evacuation of residents of border villages is underway, the press service of the Ministry of Emergency Situations of Kyrgyzstan said on Thursday. , the evacuation of residents of a number of border villages to safe areas began. Earlier on Thursday, the border service of Kyrgyzstan announced the start 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.
