At the very least 3 protection authorities have been discovered dead across Kazakhstan as authorities clamber to represent losses during a few of the worst unrest in the ex-Soviet republic’s three decades of self-reliance, media reported Monday.
Kazakhstan’s indoor ministry claims 16 police, nationwide guard and also army personnel were killed as well as greater than 1,300 hurt during the week of regional objections over gas rate hikes that came down right into nationwide riots. Kazakhstan’s nationwide safety and security committee (KNB) last week revealed the apprehension of its previous head Karim Masimov and also «various other individuals» on suspicion of treason.
Interfax reported Monday that the head of authorities in southerly Kazakhstan’s Zhambyl area, Zhanat Suleimenov, passed away by suicide.
Regional journalists reported that authorities had apparently opened up an undefined criminal case against Suleimenov complying with the capture of local police and also federal government buildings in Zhambyl’s administrative center of Taras.
Soon after, the KNB announced that the body of its colonel Azamat Ibrayev was located outside his home in the Kazakh capital of Nur-Sultan.
Baza, a Telegram channel thought to have links to Russia’s security services, declared that Ibrayev dropped from a high-rise building.
Interfax later cited Kazakhstan’s indoor ministry as confirming that the head of a cops district in Kazakhstan’s biggest city of Almaty, Tanat Nazanov, died from a heart attack.
The 3 fatalities come virtually a week after social media video showed crowds storming public offices, establishing fire to buildings and seizing cops devices, including automobiles as well as trouble equipment.
Different accounts position the variety of total casualties of the agitation throughout dozens of Kazakh cities at in between 44 and also 164.
