A Kazakh man shot dead five people, including two policemen, when police and bailiffs tried to evict him from his house in Almaty on Monday, authorities said.
The incident happened in the western outskirts of the Central Asian nation's biggest city, police said in a statement, adding that they have detained the shooter.
It was not clear who the other three victims were.
Armed attacks on police are rare in the oil-rich ex-Soviet country which has strict arms controls and relatively high living standards.