In first admission, Tajikistan concedes deaths in recent clashes

Tajikistan does not say how many died in conflict at border, while Kyrgyzstan lifts its toll to 36 killed.

Tajikistan on Monday said border clashes last week with Kyrgyzstan had left several dead on its side in the first admission of Tajik fatalities. Fighting between the two Central Asian nations erupted last Thursday leaving dozens dead and thousands displaced, but a ceasefire brokered the same day saw a gradual halt to fighting that was holding on Monday. The prosecutor general’s office in Tajikistan, a closed authoritarian state that has largely remained silent since fighting broke out, said it had opened criminal probes against members of the Kyrgyzstan military and armed civilians over the violence.