The cost of LPG in the country has doubled after a price hike at the beginning of the year.
Security personnel in Kazakhstan killed dozens of demonstrators in the city of Almaty amid widespread street protests on Wednesday night, AFP reported. For several days, large-scale protests are taking place in the Central Asian country, which is a former member of the Soviet Republic, against rising fuel prices. The cost of liquefied petroleum gas, or LPG, used in several vehicles in the country, has doubled after a price hike at the beginning of the year. “Last night, extremist forces tried to assault administrative buildings, the Almaty city police department, as well as local police commissariats,” police spokesperson Saltanat Azirbek said. “Dozens of assailants were eliminated.” Kazakhstan’s President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev accepted the government’s resignation on Wednesday amid the unrest, Reuters reported.
