Kazakhstan raises death toll to 225 in days of protests

MOSCOW – A apical law-enforcement authoritative successful Kazakhstan said Saturday that 225 radical died during the convulsive demonstrations that shook the state this month, a importantly higher fig than antecedently announced.

Serik Shalabayev, caput of the transgression prosecution work successful the wide prosecutor’s office, said 19 constabulary officers oregon servicemen were among the dead, quality reports said. More than 4,300 radical were injured, helium said.

The erstwhile authoritative decease toll was 164.

Demonstrations started connected Jan. 2 successful the lipid and gas-rich Central Asian federation to protestation a crisp emergence successful substance prices. They rapidly dispersed nationwide, widened into a wide protestation against the country's authoritarian authorities and descended into unit wrong respective days, particularly successful Almaty, the country’s largest city. Protesters stormed authorities buildings and acceptable them ablaze.

At the petition of President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev, the Russia-led Collective Security Treaty Organization sent a unit of much than 2,000 soldiers, mostly Russians, to enactment arsenic peacekeepers. The Russian Defense Ministry said Saturday that its troops had returned home, but it was unclear if forces from different confederation countries remained successful Kazakhstan.

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