Four people shot dead in armed attack on police station in Kazakhstan
Three policemen and a civilian were killed in an armed attack on a police station in Kazakhstan’s commercial capital, Almaty. At least ten shots were heard as a man with a rifle reportedly stormed a police station in Kazakhstan's financial capital Almaty. Five witnesses said they heard shots in three different parts of the city. It is thought at least five other people have been rushed to hospital with gunshot wounds. One man has been arrested, but it is thought another shooter is still at large. The scene is cordoned off by police carrying assault rifles. The Kazakh government has ordered all military units to be out on high alert. The country’s Defense Ministry reports that that its units have tightened control. It is the second deadly attack in two months in the wealthiest of Central Asia's five post-Soviet republics following a still largely unexplained rampage by dozens of young men in the northwestern city of Aqtobe that left at least 28 people dead.
