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Official: 30 killed in Kyrgyzstan village (AP)

June 13th, 2010

Members of ethnic Uzbek community armed with sticks and Molotov cocktails to protect their lives and property look at smoke rising from the burning Uzbek villages set on fire by the Kyrgyz attackers near Osh, 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 - A senior military official says Kyrgyz mobs have killed about 30 Uzbeks in a village in southern Kyrgyzstan.


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