2 Reported Killed in Clashes Between Kyrgyz and Tajik Border Guards

2 Reported Killed in Clashes Between Kyrgyz and Tajik Border Guards
Kyrgyz border guards patrol at a border post in the village of Maksat, near the Kyrgyz-Tajik border, some 1,200 kilometers from Bishkek, on May 4, 2021. Vyacheslav Oseledko/AFP via Getty Images
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BISHKEK—Kyrgyz and Tajik border guards exchanged fire in three separate incidents in a border dispute on Wednesday, killing at least two people, officials on both sides said.

The clashes came on the eve of a regional security summit, and a day after new fighting between Armenia and Azerbaijan raised fears of instability spreading to other parts of the former Soviet Union while Russian forces fight in Ukraine.