Go to the media bankKyrgyz military personnel. File photoBISHKEK, Sep 16Intense fighting continues on the border between Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan, the press service of the Kyrgyz State Committee for National Security reported.
«Despite efforts to cease fire, unfortunately, the Tajik side continues to heavy military equipment to the conflict area and uses the entire available arsenal to shell the territory of Kyrgyzstan, trying to capture our territory,» the agency said in a statement.
They stressed that clashes were taking place along the entire perimeter of the border. Tajikistan's actions in Kyrgyzstan were called military aggression. Thus, the decrease in the intensity of shooting, which RIA Novosti reported in the Kyrgyz State Committee for National Security earlier on Friday, again escalated.
Kyrgyzstan reports 18 casualties on border with TajikistanLarge-scale clashes on the border between Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan began on Friday morning. According to the Kyrgyz border department, the Tajik side attacked the positions of the Kyrgyz people along the entire perimeter of the border. In turn, the State Committee for National Security of Tajikistan said that the military of the Koktosh border outpost of the Batken border detachment of Kyrgyzstan fired on the Tajik border outpost «Dushanbe» from heavy weapons. In Bishkek, they said that 18 border guards were injured, in Dushanbe they report the death of one serviceman and three wounded.