Five militants and two members of an elite police force were killed in a clash in southern Kazakhstan, prosecutors said on Sunday, amid concerns about rising Islamist unrest in the Central Asian state.
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"Two members of the special Arystan battalion of the national security committee were killed," general prosecutors said in a statement.
"After refusing to give themselves up and providing armed resistance, five members of the terrorist group were killed."
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