A cease-fire on the border between Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan largely held on Friday following a day of intense clashes that killed more than 20 people and wounded over 100 in a conflict over water supply between the two ex-Soviet Central Asian neighbors.
More than 7,000 Kyrgyz residents have been evacuated from the area engulfed by the fighting as troops from the two countries exchanged gunfire around a water supply facility near the village of Kok-Tash in western Kyrgyzstan on the border with Tajikistan.
Early Friday, Kyrgyz officials reported the firing on the border but later said that the truce is being observed.