Kyrgyzstan-Tajikistan border: Almost 30 reported dead in clashes

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By Elsa Maishman BBC News Image source, Reuters Image caption, A still from a video released by Kyrgyz border guards, which they said showed fighting on the border Almost 30 people have been reported killed and dozens injured in clashes on the Kyrgyzstan-Tajikistan border.
Fighting regularly flares up between the two former Soviet states, whose border has been disputed since the collapse of the USSR.
A fresh skirmish which began earlier in the week continued on Friday, despite the two countries agreeing a ceasefire.
Some 24 people in Kyrgyzstan have so far been killed, the Kyrgyz health ministry said on Friday.