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Ethnic rioting spreads in Kyrgyzstan, with 80 dead (AP)

June 13th, 2010

A 14-year-old boy, an ethnic Uzbek reportedly shot in the head by a sniper during recent clashes, lies in a truck together with other wounded people before transportation to the hospital in the village of Naramon, near Osh airport, southern Kyrgyzstan, on Saturday, June 12, 2010. The country's second-largest city, Osh, slid into chaos Friday when gangs of young Kyrgyz men armed with firearms and metal rods marched on Uzbek neighborhoods and set their homes on fire. Thousands of terrified ethnic Uzbeks were fleeing toward the nearby border with Uzbekistan.(AP Photo/D. Dalton Bennett)AP - Ethnic violence is spreading across southern Kyrgyzstan, where at least 80 people have been killed and more than 1,000 wounded.


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