Kyrgyz military personnel. Archival photoBISHKEK, Jan 28 The number of injured Kyrgyz soldiers in a shootout on the border with Tajikistan has increased to 11 people, Sputnik Kyrgyzstan reports on its Telegram channel, citing the country's Ministry of Health. Earlier it was reported about seven wounded citizens of Kyrgyzstan .
"The number of injured military personnel of Kyrgyzstan has reached 11 people… All were hospitalized in a state of moderate severity", the agency reports.
The clashes lasted for several hours, a truce was reached after negotiations between representatives of the two countries around 00.00 Moscow time on January 28. Earlier it became known about the beginning of a shootout between the border guards of the two countries. According to the Border Service of Kyrgyzstan, grenade launchers and mortars were used from the opposite side. The cause of the conflict was the blocking of the highway connecting the Kyrgyz cities of Isfana and Batken by the Tajik military. The clashes lasted for several hours, a truce was reached after negotiations between representatives of the two countries around 00.00 Moscow time on January 28. The border of Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan periodically becomes a zone of conflict between local residents and border guards of the two countries, which arise due to undelimited areas where it is impossible to determine how the border between states runs. 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. />Infographics