Kazakhstan's President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev said on Friday he had given shoot-to-kill orders to deal with further disturbances from those he called bandits and terrorists, adding that those who failed to surrender would be "destroyed."
His comments came as Russian soldiers continued to be flown into the country to help deal with the worst violence in the Central Asian state's 30 years of independence, with fresh gunfire being heard in the country's largest city, Almaty.
Up to 20,000 "bandits" had attacked Almaty and had been destroying state property, Mr Tokayev said in a televised address on Friday after a week when protests over fuel prices exploded into a countrywide wave of unrest.
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