Uzbek citizens stranded at Russian-Kazakh border try to break through security checkpoint to return home

AKIPRESS.COM - Uzbek citizens gathered again in Bolshechernigovsky district of Samara region to cross the border with Kazakhstan and return home. They tried to break through the security checkpoint to Orenburg region, Interfax reported on August 5. "People were waiting for a decision on their situation to be announced at 9:00 a.m. yesterday. This did not happen. Then they tried to break through to Orenburg region. Police officers returned them to Samara region," the agency's source said.
"The situation remains stable in the tent camp at the moment. Officials make lists of people," he said.
According to the source, 840 people remain in the tent camp at the border with Orenburg region, including 425 people who could not return home by train and newly arrived citizens.
The source noted that "the actions of Uzbek citizens were quickly suppressed, no one was injured".
Press service of Volga District of the Russian Guard confirmed the fact of the fight.
"A clash of group of migrants with law enforcement officers at the Russian-Kazakh border in the Samara region, the video of which is distributed in social media, occurred the day before and was very quickly localized without the intervention of Russian Guard representatives," press service said.
It was reported earlier that three passenger trains of Uzbekiston Temir Yullari (Railways of Uzbekistan) on July 16 evacuated about 1,400 citizens who were stranded at the Kazakh-Russian border from the Kinel station in Samara region.
Some citizens of Uzbekistan did not have money for a train ticket. About 400 Uzbekistanis remained in the region. Ministry of Labor of Samara Region offered jobs for those who could not leave.
This is not the first case of a gathering of Uzbek citizens in Samara region.
In May, people began to arrive at the border learning about its alleged opening, which was not true.
As a result, more than 1,000 people have gathered near village of Bolshaya Chernigovka.
Officials set up a tent camp, people there were provided with food, drinking water and personal protective equipment.
Uzbek citizens eventually were allowed to return home through the territories of Kazakhstan.
More than 350 Uzbeks gathered in region in early June. The Consul General of the Republic for the Volga Federal District arrived to solve the issue.
People crossed the border with Kazakhstan and returned to Uzbekistan by buses on June 6.