Officers of Kazakhstan's border service have saved a Russian citizen who had fallen off a poaching boat in the Kazakh waters of the Caspian Sea, reports the agency media service.
According to the press release, a Kazakh patrol boat had detected and tried to stop a light watercraft of a model normally used by poachers in the Caspian Sea.
In an attempt to apprehend the tresspassers officers fired 9 warning shots from an AK-47 rifle.
Apparently to evade the pursue the poachers threw the man out into water and the boat rushed away at a high speed.
Officers pulled Russian citizen Abdulla Kurban-Magamedov out of water in some 35 miles from the coast. He says he had been sitting by the engine and fell out unintentionally after a strong jolting.
At the moment administrative procedures and decision making in relation to the citizen are under way.
IA Novosti-Kazakhstan