Nur-Sultan: Security forces in Kazakhstan have arrested 9,900 people regarding last week’s riots, the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Asian nations said on Tuesday.
The news came as President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev, who called the violence of a coup attempt, regulated to nominate new prime ministers at a address for parliament later on.
The former oil-rich Soviet republic said the government buildings were attacked in several major cities after initially protest peace on the increase with fuel prices into violence.
Tokayev said Islamist militants from regional and Afghan countries, as well as the Middle East, were among the attackers.
He rejected his cabinet in the midst of riots, along with a number of security officials and detained because of the suspicion of the most senior betrayal between them, Karim Masimov, former head of the National Security Committee.
Kazakhstan holds almost 10,000 in a deadly riot
