"unprecedented protests against the government of oil-rich Kazakhstan spread at the weekend to a town in the country’s west, leaving one person dead and 11 wounded.
Late on Saturday, one person was killed and 11 people were wounded in a fresh clash with police in the village of Shetpe, bringing the total official death toll in the oil-producing Mangistau region to 14 and the number of wounded to around 100.
President Nursultan Nazar-bayev has declared a 20-day state of emergency in the oil city of Zhanaozen, in the same region. Thirteen people were killed there in violence that broke out on Friday."
Late on Saturday, one person was killed and 11 people were wounded in a fresh clash with police in the village of Shetpe, bringing the total official death toll in the oil-producing Mangistau region to 14 and the number of wounded to around 100.
President Nursultan Nazar-bayev has declared a 20-day state of emergency in the oil city of Zhanaozen, in the same region. Thirteen people were killed there in violence that broke out on Friday."
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