Soldier Begzod Yuldashev killed in armed conflict 10 days before his birthday

AKIPRESS.COM - Begzod Yuldashev died as a result of an armed conflict on the Kyrgyz-Tajik border. The Border Service of the State National Security Committee of Kyrgyzstan said 3 soldiers of the Boru special-purpose squad died.
Yuldashev was born May 10, 1990. For the past 8 years he served in military unit #2021 at the rank of warrant officer.
Begzod graduated from the Osh Technological University in 2013. He was brought up in a family with four children (three brothers and a sister). Yuldashev was married and had 3 children.
He died on April 29. The next day, he was buried in the Leilek district.
At least 36 Kyrgyz citizens were killed, including 33 civilians and 3 soldiers. 25 dead bodies of Kyrgyzstanis were found in the Golovnoy water distributor area in Ak-Sai rural district of Batken where a mortar shelling was reported on April 29. Criminal probe into the massacre was launched.
Kyrgyz Interior Ministry troops told about the details of the clash in the early days of the conflict near the Golovnoy area. The armed conflict that began on April 29 at this site on the border with the Vorukh enclave, then gunfire exchange escalated up to the border villages of Leilek district including Borborduk, Maksat, Kulundu, Arka-1 and Arka-2 in the night of April 30.
Tajikistani troops and civilians occupied the houses of Kyrgyz citizens on the morning of April 30, their military vehicles were seen in Kyrgyz villages while the local Kyrgyz citizens were evacuated and some fled the conflict zone on their cars. Throughout April 30, Tajik soldiers were inside the Kyrgyz villages. Some Kyrgyz local residents started coming home only from May 2, when ceasefire agreement was reached at the intergovernmental level and withdrawal of soldiers and military equipment started.