The Kazakhstan authorities said today, Thursday, that they thwarted a coup attempt by supporters of opposition figures in exile, according to Sky News Arabia.
Kazakhstan imposed a state of emergency across the country against the background of the demonstrations and riots that accompanied it due to the protests on a double gas prices.
Residents of the cities of Jannazin and Acto in the Mantesto region, a oil -producing area in West Kazakhstan, protested a double gas prices.
The President of Kazakhstan, Qassem Zumart Tukayev, directed the formation of a government committee to meet the demands of the demonstrators and reduce gas prices.
The protests also extended to other cities. In Alma Ata, the largest city and the first capital of the country, the demonstrators clashed with the security forces and the police used gas and sound bombs..
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