Kyrgyz border guard kills five near Kazakhstan

A Kyrgyz soldier stationed near the Central Asian state's border with Kazakhstan shot dead four of his colleagues and the wife of one of them on Monday before fleeing in a car, AFP reports citing the police.The attack about 100 kilometres (65 miles) southeast of the popular Lake Issyk-Kul resort was the third such outbreak of violence in the increasingly volatile region in recent months.The unnamed border guard shot dead the head of the small high-mountain outpost, a senior soldier and a warrant officer as well as a fourth soldier and his wife, an interior ministry spokesman said.Police launched a manhunt for the killer, who jumped into a car and drove away in an unknown direction. There was no immediate motive given for the attack.The border region shared by Kyrgyzstan, Kazakhstan and China has seen a wave of sporadic violence in the past two months.Police in Kazakhstan said last week they had discovered the charred and stabbed remains of 11 bodies scattered over large stretches of a remote park popular with international climbers and hikers.An investigation into that attack is still ongoing, with police searching for the son of a slain forest park warden who went missing.That incident occurred two months after a Kazakh border guard confessed to killing 14 of his fellow servicemen at a remote frontier post near the border with China.