A police car on a street in Almaty. File photoNUR-SULTAN, Feb 7More than 1.5 thousand weapons, including grenade launchers, machine guns, machine guns, from the arsenals of the Ministry of Internal Affairs and the National Security Committee fell into the hands of rioters in Kazakhstan, said the head of the special prosecutors service of the Prosecutor General's Office, Rizabek Ozharov. «Unfortunately, there were also such facts, when, contrary to the interests of state and public security, employees, without resisting, left the buildings of the police departments of the Almaty and Zhambyl regions, where weapons and ammunition were located. A huge arsenal fell into the hands of the rioters — more than one and a half thousand units. and grenades. And that's not counting the stolen weapons from hunting shops,» he said at a briefing on Monday.Two regions of Kazakhstan will cancel the «orange» level of the threat of terrorismAccording to him, only 967 weapons were found, the rest is still in the hands of the rioters. «The police are taking measures to detect and seize him,» Ozharov explained. In early January, mass protests took place in Kazakhstan. In the first days of 2022, residents of the cities of Zhanaozen and Aktau in the west of the country opposed the doubling of prices for liquefied gas. Later, the protests spread to other cities, including Alma-Ata, the old capital and the largest city of the republic: looting began there, militants attacked state institutions, took away weapons. The authorities declared a state of emergency throughout the country until January 19 and carried out a counter-terrorism operation. According to the UN, during the protests in Kazakhstan, about 1,000 people were injured. According to the country's Prosecutor General's Office, 4,578 people were injured as a result of the riots, 225 people were killed, including 19 security officials. hunted by terrorists in Alma-Ata
