Five people killed in firefight on Tajik-Afghan border, Tajikistan says

The incidental is the 3rd of its benignant successful caller weeks successful which Tajik borderline guards and civilians person been killed.

Five radical person been killed successful a firefight betwixt borderline guards and intruders connected Tajikistan‘s borderline with Afghanistan, the Tajik borderline extortion bureau says.

Heavily equipped raiders from Afghanistan crossed into Tajikistan astatine the colony of Kavo successful the Shamsiddin Shokhin territory connected Tuesday and were located connected Wednesday, according to a connection by the borderline bureau published by Tajik quality agency Khovar.

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The borderline bureau said the men attacked a defender post, sidesplitting 2 borderline guards, and 3 of the intruders died successful the ensuing weapon battle.

The bureau said the incidental was the 3rd of its benignant successful caller weeks successful which Tajik borderline guards and civilians were killed.

The borderline guards secured the weapons and ammunition utilized by the intruders, including grenades, 3 M-16 rifles, a Kalashnikov battle rifle, 3 foreign-made pistols with silencers, 10 manus grenades, a night-vision scope, explosives and different ammunition astatine the scene, the bureau said.

“The terrorists refused to obey orders from Tajik borderline guards to surrender and offered equipped resistance. They intended to transportation retired an equipped onslaught connected 1 of the borderline posts of the Border Troops of the State Committee for National Security of the Republic of Tajikistan,” the connection said.

Chinese citizens moving for a mining institution successful the portion person besides been among those killed.

The latest incidental demonstrated “the Taliban government’s nonaccomplishment to fulfil their planetary obligations and repeated commitments to ensuring information and stableness on the authorities borderline with the Republic of Tajikistan and to combating members of violent organisations, reflecting superior and recurring irresponsibility”, the connection added.

It bureau said that it expected an apology from the Afghan leadership.

Tajikistan volition support its territorial integrity against “terrorists and smugglers” by each means, it added.

Afghanistan has not yet commented connected the incident.

Drugs from Afghanistan are smuggled into Central Asia crossed the mostly unsecured 1,340km (830-mile) border. Russian forces are stationed successful Tajikistan and person successful the past participated successful associated exercises with Tajik forces to assistance unafraid the border.