"The situation on the Kyrgyz-Uzbek state border has a tendency toward worsening," Deputy Chairman of the Kyrgyz Border Service Cholponbek Turusbek. told 24.kg news agency.
The 24.kg news agency asked the Kyrgyz Border Service to comment on the statement of the Uzbek General Prosecutor's Office that bandits who attacked checkpoint in the town of Khanabad in the Andijan region came from Kyrgyzstan.
"We are aware of such a statement of the Uzbek Prosecutor General. And, at least, it makes us wonder," deputy chairman of the Kyrgyz Border Service said.
"To officially state about that which is untrue, especially by the official power and a body such as the country's Prosecutor General's Office the country - arouses perplexity," Cholponbek Turusbek underlines.
"This is disinformation," the deputy head of the border service said.
Turusbekov said the night in the area of tension was calm.
"The situation on the Kyrgyz-Uzbek state border in the Kyrgyz region of Jalal-Abad and Andijan - Uzbekistan in nature are relatively calm, but I must say that it has a tendency to complicate," Turusbekov said.
The deputy chairman also noted that checkpoints at the entrances and exits function for free entry of Kyrgyz citizens from Uzbekistan and for leave of Uzbek citizens from Kyrgyztsan.
Turusbekov said members of the Jalal-Abad border detachment serve in the enhanced mode.