Director of Kazakh border service resigns

General Major Nurzhan Myrzaliyev, Deputy Chairman of the Kazakh Committee for National Security and head of the border service, has resigned, Chief Military Prosecutor Yergali Merzadinov said, Interfax reports.

Authorities of the Shygys Regional Directorate of the Usharalsky Border Group was dismissed.

Merzadinov said that General Myrzaliyev resigned over the incident at the Ankankergen Border Post.