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Kyrgyzstan steps up security measures along the border with Tajikistan

Xinhua, September 7, 2015 Adjust font size:

Kyrgyzstan has tightened the security on the Kyrgyz-Tajik border due to recent tense situation in Tajikistan, the Kyrgyz State Border Service said on Monday.

Kyrgyzstan sent additional border patrol units to monitor the situation in the border areas. And the border guards of the two countries intensified the exchange of operation information, it said.

Meanwhile, checkpoints on the Kyrgyz-Tajik state border were in normal operation, it added.

Eight police officers were killed in Tajikistan on Friday in attacks by a terrorist group on the outskirts of the capital Dushanbe and in the town of Vahdat, just outside the capital.

Information from the Ministry of Internal Affairs indicated that the terrorist group, which had seized arms and ammunition, was led by Major General Abduhalim Nazarzoda, the country's deputy defense minister. But Nazarzoda through his friends on a social network site denied that he was involved in the attacks. Endi