Russian news agencies said that Shooting broke out on Wednesday between guards patrolling the border between Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan.

Afghan Voice Agency(AVA)_Monitoring, While recent years have seen frequent skirmishes along the border, the latest incident follows fighting on Tuesday between two other former Soviet republics, Azerbaijan and Armenia, which was their deadliest since 2020, Reuters reported.

The Kyrgyz border service said Tajik guards opened fire after being asked to leave “combat positions” along the border and Kyrgyz guards used weapons in response, Russia’s RIA state news agency said.