Ethnic clashes in Kazakhstan leave eight dead, scores wounded

NUR-SULTAN/ALMATY (Reuters) – Eight people were killed and scores wounded in a series of clashes overnight in villages in Kazakhstan’s southern Zhambyl province, with homes and businesses torched, the interior minister said on Saturday. Some 70 people were involved in the initial confrontation on the outskirts of Masanchi village, close to the border with Kyrgyzstan, Yerlan Turgumbayev told a news briefing. It was unclear what sparked the clashes between groups of young male Dungans and ethnic Kazakhs.

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