Servicemen on the border of Kyrgyzstan and TajikistanBISHKEK, Jan 27 Kyrgyzstan evacuated from the conflict zone on the border almost 1.5 thousand people with Tajikistan, the press service of the Ministry of Emergency Situations of the republic told RIA Novosti on Thursday. «, — said the representative of the press service. According to him, the civil protection services of the south of Kyrgyzstan continue to work in an emergency mode. «There are enough tents, hot meals and drinking water, medical care and transport for evacuation,» the agency stressed. Earlier Thursday, the Kyrgyz border service 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 non-delimited areas where it is impossible to determine how the border between states lies. 2022/01/61c37ff169dfb6f348efc94e30670825.jpg» />Infographic
