RFE/RL – Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty (Autor): „Kyrgyzstan Closes Tajik Border After Clashes In Tajikistan“, Dokument #1169837

Kyrgyzstan Closes Tajik Border After Clashes In Tajikistan

September 20, 2010

BATKEN, Kyrgyzstan -- Kyrgyzstan has closed its border with Tajikistan following the deadly clashes between an armed extremist group and Tajik military forces in Tajikistan's Rasht province on September 19, RFE/RL's Kyrgyz Service reports.

Kyrgyz Border Guard Service Deputy Chairman Cholponbek Turusbekov told RFE/RL that Kyrgyz security forces from the Naryn, Issyk-Kul, Chui, and Talas oblasts have been deployed to Batken Oblast to control the Kyrgyz-Tajik border.

Tajik authorities say armed militants killed at least 23 servicemen on September 19 near the town of Garm, not far from the Tajik-Kyrgyz border.

ecoi.net-Beschreibung:: Kirgisistan schließt Grenze zuTadschikistan nach tödlichen Zusammenstößen zwischen extremistischer Gruppierung und tadschikischem Militär in Tadschikistans Provinz Rasht

Länder:: Kirgisistan, Tadschikistan
Quelle:: RFE/RL – Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty (Autor)
Veröffentlicht:: 20. September 2010
Originallink:: http://www.rferl.org/content/Kyrgyzstan_Closes_Tajik_Border_After_Clashes_In_Tajikistan/2162954.html
Dokumentart:: Medienbericht
Sprache:: Englisch
Dokument-ID:: 1169837 (frühere ID 146381)