Kazakh police open fireplace on rioters
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Kazakh police have opened fireplace on protesters in the western part of the country as fresh violence has flared following mass riots in the oil town of Zhanaozen. One person is noted killed and eleven inured according to the prosecutor’s office. On Saturday evening, a group of some 50 people blocked a railway near town of Shetpe to protest at the violent crackdown on protesters in an oil town around a hundred kilometers to the north-east, Itar-Tass news agency reviews. As police stepped in to disperse the crowd, the rioters attacked a cargo practice with Molotov cocktails. The unrest then distribute to the town of Shetpe, where rioters knocked down a Christmas tree and smashed shop windows and cars. “ Given the fact the hooligans’ actions were posing a real threat to the life and health of civilians and police officers, the police were pressured to open fireplace ,” the prosecutor’s office said in a statement. The events follow a massive riot in the eastern town of Zhanaozen on Friday, when thousands of oil workers took to the streets demanding higher wages. The authorities deployed additional police and troops to the town and also cut off cellular and Internet networks there. Kazakh President Nursultan Nazarbaev has enforced a 20-day state of emergency and an evening curfew in Zhanaozen. Police have arrested some 70 people in the violent uprising, which has left at least 11 people dead and more than 80 injured. The president vowed that those behind the riots will face tough punishment.