Kyrgyzstan redoubled security measures at the bord
Kyrgyzstan redoubled security measures at the border with Tajikistan.
Moscow, Sept. 20 .- The authorities of Kyrgyzstan today stepped up security measures at the border with Tajikistan, where 23 soldiers were killed the day before in a terrorist attack on a military column.
"From our side we have not closed the border, what we have done has been to strengthen the control," he told Interfax news agency the commander of, aika gold, the troops responsible for the Kyrgyz border guard, Zakir Tilenov.
The Kyrgyz military chief indicated that the Tajik authorities themselves unilaterally closed the border in the Alai region after yesterday's attack.
The Tajik power military column was attacked with machine guns and grenade launchers in a mountainous area when he went to the city of Rasht, about 100 kilometers east of, buy fallen earth chips, Dushanbe, the capital of Tajikistan, and about 150 kilometers from the Tajik-Kyrgyz .
The Tajik Dnse Ministry declared that yesterday's terrorist attack was perpetrated by people linked to Islamic guerrilla leaders Abdul Rakhimov, known as Mullah Abdul, and Alovidin Davlatov.
The spokesman of the ministry, Faridun Majmadaliev, attributed the attack to mercenaries from Pakistan, Afghanistan and the Russian republic of Chechnya, "using as cover the sacred religion of Islam in Tajikistan try to make a scene of warfare."