DUSHANBE, August 8, Asia-Plus – Ferghana.ru – A group of alleged militants of the Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan that were involved in attacks on border and customs checkpoints on the Tajik-Kyrgyz border in may this year have been killed in a raid made by Kyrgyz security services jointly with their Uzbek colleagues in southern Kyrgyzstan.
Ferghana.ru quoted a source in the Kyrgyz security service as saying that the joint raid aimed at securing the arrest of Islamic militants involved in a May border incident that claimed several lives in
Kyrgyzstan
and
Tajikistan
was made in the Kyrgyz city of
Osh
on August 6, at around
10:30 p.m.
on local time. Three men were killed during the security raid, which was conducted in conjunction with Uzbek security forces, according to Ferghana.ru.
When searching their car, security forces found one sub-machine-gun AKSU “Kalashnikov”, three full magazines, 266 cartridges, 4 RGD-5 hand grenades, one F-1 grenade, one RPK machine-gun magazine, a road map of Uzbekistan where a number of locations were marked with the word “jihad”, one pair of army binoculars, extremist religious literature in the Kyrgyz and Uzbek languages, and fake passports, Ferghana.ru reported.
Investigation is under way; a joint investigation team comprising officers from Kyrgyzstan’s National Security Service (SNB), Prosecutor-General’s Office and the Ministry of Interior (MoI) has been set up to investigate into the matter.
