Overnight brawl in Kazakhstan leaves 8 dead, scores wounded
NUR-SULTAN/ALMATY (Reuters) - A brawl and a series of clashes in several villages in Kazakhstan’s southern Zhambyl province have left eight people dead and scores wounded, Interior Minister Yerlan Turgumbayev said on Saturday.
Some 70 people were involved in the initial brawl on the outskirts of the Masanchi village, close to the Kazakh-Kyrgyz border, he told a briefing, after which 300 more people arrived from the nearby villages.
The crowd clashed with police, wounding two officers with gunshots, and torched dozens of buildings and cars. Police have detained 47 people and confiscated two hunting shotguns, Turgumbayev said.
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There a few paragraphs down it says some of those involved were members of the "Dungan group, Muslims of Chinese ethnic origin". Early reports mentioned something about "Chinese".... and these clashes, so it piqued my interest. We will see where this goes.
