Kazakhstan says 164 people, including two children, killed during unrest and 5,800 detained


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A total of 164 people, including two children, were killed in violent unrest in Kazakhstan over the last week, Russia’s Sputnik news agency cited the health ministry as saying on Sunday. The figures reported on the state news channel Khabar-24 are a significant rise from previous tallies. It was not clear if the deaths refer only to civilians or if law-enforcement deaths are included. Kazakh authorities said earlier on Sunday that 16 police or national guard had been killed. Authorities previously gave the civilian death toll as 26. Demonstrations began a week ago against a fuel price rise before exploding...