DUSHANBE, May 8, 2014, Asia-Plus — Clashes between villages long the Tajik-Kyrgyz took place in the evening of May 7 at around 5:00 pm.
At least 60 people from both sides were reportedly injured in the violence that broke out when an argument between residents of the Tajik exclave of Vorukh within Kyrgyzstan and the Kyrgyz village of Kuktash turned into stone-throwing battle.
“Clashes broke out after a group of young Kyrgyz men being in a state of drunkenness pelted a car of resident of the Tajik village of Vorukh with stones,” an official source at the Sughd regional administration told Asia-Plus in an interview.
According to him, seven residents of Isfara were hospitalized with cerebral injuries and one Tajik national sustained a hunting gun shot wound.
“Border guards and police from both countries fired into the air to disperse the crowd,” the source said, noting that one Tajik police officer was seriously injured.
The road that connects the two countries still remains blocked by Kyrgyz citizens.
