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At least 60 people were hospitalized after the explosion of a military facility storing explosives for engineering purposes.
Central Asian authorities said that Kazakhstan has evacuated the settlement near military installations in the southern province of Jambir, after the settlement was shaken by a series of strong explosions, injuring at least 60 people.
Deputy Defense Minister Ruslan Shpekbayev said on Thursday that the explosion occurred after a fire at the facility, which contained explosives for engineering purposes. In addition, the transportation and railway departments stated that they are closing a road and railway that passes through the area.
The provincial government stated that 60 people had been hospitalized for injuries from the explosion, adding that the fire had not yet been extinguished.
❗🇰🇿 In Kazakhstan, a military unit, the Ministry of Defense of the Republic, exploded.
The Ministry of National Defense of the Republic of Kazakhstan reported that an explosion occurred in Taraz, Kazakhstan due to a fire near a warehouse of a military unit. pic.twitter.com/ay1TNvD2gc
-RAGEX (@theragex) August 26, 2021
President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev said in a series of tweets that at least 30 of the wounded were soldiers or emergency personnel and were investigating the incident.
A statement from the Ministry of National Defense stated that residents of four villages are being evacuated, including one of 250 people less than one kilometer from the explosion site.
A video posted online showed that the explosion occurred near a major road connecting Taraz, the provincial center, with the country’s commercial center and the largest city, Almaty.
In 2019, a similar accident occurred in the Kazakh town of Arys in the neighboring Turkestan region, killing 4 people and injuring dozens of others. At that time, an ammunition depot exploded, forcing the authorities to evacuate 44,000 people from the entire town.
That explosion was the third fatal explosion near the town in ten years.
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