BISHKEK. Sept 8 (Interfax) - The majority of Kyrgyz religious extremists live in southern Kyrgyzstan, chief of the 10th Main Department of the Kyrgyz Interior Ministry Raim Salimov said.
"Seventy-five percent out of 1,900 members of radical religious organizations registered in the country stay in southern regions: Osh, Batken and Jalal-Abad," Salimov told a news conference on Tuesday.
The trend of engaging women in radical extremist organizations has persisted, with 25% of registered radicals being women, he said.
"People living in the country have continued to go to take part in hostilities in Syria, and there are more than 450 such people today, according to official data," Salimov said, saying that 110 Kyrgyz nationals have been killed in Syria.
A total of 264 instances of religious extremism have been revealed in the country since the start of 2015, 231 people have been detained and more than 7,000 copies of banned literature have been seized, he said.