As a result of shooting on the border of Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan, three Tajik servicemen were taken to a hospital in the city of Isfara, Sputnik Tajikistan reports.

Zubaydullo Shomadov, a spokesman for the Isfara City Hall, said that the cause of the riots was the throwing of stones at cars of Tajik citizens. In Kyrgyzstan, they said that the section of the Batken-Isfana road was blocked by the Tajik border services.

The military and law enforcement agencies rushed to the border to contain the situation. There is a barracks position. Representatives of the regional authorities of the two countries also left for the place.

Law enforcement officers from Tajikistan and Kyrgyzstan tried to disperse the skirmish by firing into the air to disperse the crowd. Negotiations are underway.

In Kyrgyzstan, residents of border areas were evacuated.

Earlier, on December 23, it became known that a shootout took place on the border of Tajikistan and Kyrgyzstan. They fired at the house of a resident of the Tajik Chorku. There were no casualties as a result of the incident

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