Ambulance car shot on its way to Ak-Sai village during Kyrgyz-Tajik border gunfire exchange

AKIPRESS.COM - An ambulance car was fired on its way to Ak-Sai village to pick up victims during the armed conflict on the on the Kyrgyz-Tajik border, Turmush correspondent visited the scene.
The incident took place on April 29.
Ashirali Burkanali uulu, a paramedic in the ambulance department of the hospital in Bujum village, and Mamatisak Ergeshov, a driver of the Batken regional center of medicine, were in the car. When the shooting started, they managed to leave the vehicle and hide.
The vehicle was heading towards Golovnoy water distributor area to the injured people.
"We were sent that night to the village of Kok-Tash. After the first victims of the armed conflict were taken away, we received a command to leave. Soldiers from Tajikistan were along the road and demanded us to stop. When we started to drive back, they opened fire on us. The vehicle run off the road and overturned. After getting overturned, we pushed the doors with our feet and left the vehicle. An armored vehicle came to pick us up, we then drove to the village of Kok-Tash. In the Golovnoi area, we picked up 7-8 seriously wounded people and delivered them to the hospital," said Ashirali Burkanali uulu.
Ergeshov, the driver, said when shooting started, they took the injured citizens on the second ambulance car and sent them to Batken. "Gunfire started on the road, I started driving back, and I lost control over the steer, the car overturned. Soon the soldiers arrived in armed vehicle and took us away," he said.