Law enforcement officers of Kazakhstan announced the elimination of dozens of attackers of police and administrative buildings in Almaty. This is reported by Sputnik Kazakhstan.
In Almaty on the night of January 6, there were requests to storm administrative buildings, the police department, as well as district administrations and police departments.
According to the official representative of the police, Saltanat Azyrbek, dozens of attackers have been eliminated, and their identities are being identified.
It will be recalled that protests in Kazakhstan began on January 2, when hundreds of residents of the oil city of Zhanaozen went to the building of the akimat, protesting against the increase in prices for liquefied gas. In the future protests also began in other cities. By January 4, the total number of protesters reached approximately 10. man
On January 5, the President of Kazakhstan Kasym-Jomart Tokaev dismissed the government. He also instructed the antimonopoly body to introduce state price regulation for liquefied gas, gasoline, and diesel for 180 days.
He was on the entire territory of Kazakhstan a state of emergency was introduced.
In the evening of January 5, Tokaev announced the "terrorist threat" in Kazakhstan and asked for help from the countries of the Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO), which, apart from Kazakhstan, includes Armenia, Belarus, Kyrgyzstan, Russia and Tajikistan.
