Over 40 Dead in Tajik-Kyrgyz Border Clash as Death Toll Rises
Fighting that broke out over water rights also injured more than 200 people, government officials said.
Carrying mattresses in Batken, Kyrgyzstan, on Friday for people who had been evacuated from the Tajik border area.Credit.Agence France-Presse Getty Images
April 30, 2021
MOSCOW A border clash this week between Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan killed more than 40 people, government officials said Friday, significantly raising the death toll for an episode that began as a dispute over irrigation water.
The outbreak of violence comes at a delicate time for the United States after the Biden administration announced a full withdrawal of troops from Afghanistan, which borders Tajikistan to the south, by September. The nations of Central Asia provide an alternative to Pakistan as an overland route to withdraw American military equipment.
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