Servicemen on the Kyrgyz-Tajik borderDUSHANBE, Jan 27 for skirmishes on the Tajik-Kyrgyz border increased to 17, Sputnik Tajikistan reports. Earlier, the Ministry of Health of Kyrgyzstan spoke about four wounded soldiers on their part. — Sputnik informs Tajikistan with reference to the Isfara hospital. On Thursday, the border service of Kyrgyzstan announced the beginning of a shootout between Kyrgyz and Tajik border guards, according to the department, the Tajik side uses grenade launchers and mortars, and the cause of the conflict was the blocking of the road connecting the Kyrgyz cities of Isfana and Batken by the Tajik military .The border of Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan periodically becomes a zone of conflict between local residents and border guards of the two countries, which rye arise because of non-delimited sections where it is impossible to determine how the border between the states lies. At the end of April last year, in the same area, the conflict of residents at the Golovnoy water intake escalated into an armed confrontation between the military of the two countries. 36 citizens of Kyrgyzstan were killed, about 200 were injured. Tajikistan reported 19 dead and 87 injured. More than 300 houses and infrastructure facilities were destroyed or burned down. The truce was reached by the evening of April 30.
Media: Assistant mayor of Isfara city in Tajikistan was injured at the border
