Dozens of protesters, 12 police dead in Kazakhstan protests

Military vehicles of Russian peacekeepers are parked waiting to transport onto Russian military planes at an airfield outside Moscow to fly to Kazakhstan, Thursday, Jan. 6, 2022. | (Russian Defense Ministry Press Service via AP)

By ASSOCIATED PRESS

01/06/2022 11:14 AM EST

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MOSCOW — Security forces killed dozens of protesters and 12 police died during extraordinarily violent demonstrations in Kazakhstan that saw government buildings stormed and set ablaze, authorities said Thursday. One police officer was found beheaded in escalating unrest that poses a growing challenge to authoritarian rule in the Central Asian nation.

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