The Ministry of the Interior in Kazakhstan announced on Sunday, that the protests in the country resulted in the killing of 164 demonstrators and the detention of more than 6,000 others.
In a statemnet, the ministry added that more than 100 businesses and banks were attacked and looted and more than 400 vehicles destroyed.
It is worth mentioing that, US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken urged in a telephone call with his Kazakh counterpart Mukhtar Tileuberdi for a peaceful settlement for the situation in Kazakhstan.
Blinken renewed the United States’ full support for Kazakhstan’s constitutional institutions and media freedom, according to what was published by the US State Department, in a statement on its website, today, Friday.
The two ministers discussed the ongoing state of emergency currently imposed in Kazakhstan. Blinken also called for a peaceful settlement of the crisis.
Since the beginning of January, Kazakhstan has been witnessing massive demonstrations accompanied by violence, in protest against a huge increase in liquefied petroleum gas prices.
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