Tajikistan: Tajikistan accuses Kyrgyzstan to have provoked latest border clash
Tajikistan on Saturday accused neighboring Kyrgyzstan of provoking a border clash, the latest in a series of armed confrontations between the two small impoverished Central Asian nations.
The frontier between the two countries, both of which host Russian military bases and are closely allied with Moscow, is poorly demarcated.
The Tajik foreign ministry said that on Friday, Kyrgyz military personnel had deliberately and illegally crossed the frontier near the village of Vorukh.
When told by Tajik border guards to leave, the Kyrgyz troops refused, and opened fire. The Tajik guards fired back and the two sides then agreed on a ceasefire, the ministry said in a statement on its website.