Skirmish at Kara-Suu local council election

Source: 
24 news agency
Publication date: 
Aug 19 2013

A skirmish occurred the day before in Kara-Suu district at election to local council, the Interior Ministry of Kyrgyzstan confirmed the information to journalists of 24.kg news agency .

According to preliminary information, the incident occurred yesterday at one of the voting precincts. The conflict flared up between representatives of the Social Democratic Party of Kyrgyzstan (the ruling party) and the newly formed political organization Onuguu.

At the time law enforcement agencies are trying to find out causes of the incident. Three people were wounded.

Recall, the President of Kyrgyzstan issued a decree about early elections of deputies to the local councils.

This was not the first conflict between the competing parties during the election campaign. Previously, there was a shootout between the candidates for deputies to Mailuu-Suu town council, who represented Ata-Zhurt and Ata Meken parties.

source: http://eng.24.kg/politic/2013/08/19/27575.html