Two Border Guards Killed After Vehicle Overturns Near Issyk-Kul
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- A vehicle carrying three servicemen from the Karkyra border post overturned around 1 a.m. in Kyrgyzstan's Issyk-Kul region.
- Two border guards died in hospital, while a third serviceman suffered injuries.
- The military unit's commander and senior officials went to the scene for an internal investigation.
Two Kyrgyz border guards died after a car carrying three servicemen overturned during the night in the Tyup district of Issyk-Kul region.
The accident occurred around 1 a.m. on September 7, about 3 to 4 kilometres from the Karkyra border post, on the sixth kilometre of the Tyup to Chaar-Kuduk road. Preliminary information said the Volkswagen Golf 3 left the road and overturned.
The injured servicemen were first taken to the village of Baizak and then transferred by ambulance to Tyup district hospital. Two of them died there: junior sergeant A.E.A., born in 2002, and corporal T.E.T., born in 2004. Sergeant A.B.M., born in 2001, survived with injuries.
Around 4:30 a.m., the commander of military unit 2028 and representatives of the unit's leadership went to the scene to conduct an official investigation. The information was reported by 24.kg, citing sources in the security services.
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Originally published by 24.kg in Russian. Translated, summarized, and contextualized automatically by DistantNews, with a note on how the source frames the story. Not individually reviewed before publishing. How this works.
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