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.
KazTransGaz has prolonged the contract to supply 70 million cubic meters of gas to Kyrgyzstan, Deputy Director General of Kyrgyzgas, Yevgeny Orlenko said.
Kazakhstan and Turkmenistan signed an agreement to open a new international railway guarding point, Minister of Transport and Communication of Kazakhstan, Askar Zhumagaliyev twitted.