On July 18 the Kazakh President Nursultan Nazarbayev has convened a Security Council session in connection with Almaty events, announces the press service of the Kazakh president in Twitter .

As reported earlier, a group of armed men attacked the police in Almaty . According to the data of the Interior Ministry, there were killed three policemen and a civilian. The city has declared the highest, "red", level of the terrorist threat and has begun anti-terrorist operations . One of the suspects was arrested.