Alai residents riot in marble deposit

AKIPRESS.COM - Villagers from Tash-Koro village of Alai district damaged the car and excavator of entrepreneurs engaged in extraction of marble on Chiyirchyk pasture, head of inter-regional department of the State Environmental and Technical Security Inspectorate Rysbek Yusupov said.
The protesters set a tent installed in the deposit on fire. As a result, a gas tank in the tent exploded. Deputy heads of Alai and Kara-Suui district, Deputy Governor of Osh region arrived on the scene and met with the locals.
After the meetings, it was decided to check the legality of work conducted in the marble deposit, which found the activities of entrepreneurs legal. Then a criminal probe was also launched.
Villagers accuse the businessmen of changing the flow of the river from the spring. The river started flowing in different direction, which might cause landslides, Yusupov said.