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Kyrgyzstan verifying possible entry of suicide bombers: official

03 April 2012 00:56 (UTC +04:00)

Baku-APA. The Kyrgyz Interior Ministry is checking allegations that suicide bombers may have entered the country to commit terrorist attacks, a senior official said on Monday, APA reports quoting Xinhua.

"The Kyrgyz law enforcement authorities have received intelligence about a possible infiltration of suicide bombers connected with the Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan (IMU) and the United Tajik Opposition, who are planning to stage terrorist attacks in Kyrgyzstan," First Deputy Interior Minister Bakyt Alymbekov told a meeting of the parliamentary defense and security committee.

"These allegations are being thoroughly investigated," he said.

"The Interior Ministry has sent relevant requests to Tajikistan and now measures are being taken to suppress the activity of this group," Alymbekov added.

The official also noted that such publications appear on the Internet a lot, but they are not reliable.