A third day of ethnic rioting engulfed new areas in southern Kyrgyzstan yesterday, with mobs of Kyrgyz men burning Uzbek villages, slaughtering residents and storming police stations.
The interim government has ordered troops to shoot rioters dead, but even that has failed to stop the spiralling violence which has left more 100 people dead and over 1,100 wounded since Thursday night.
Thousands of Uzbeks have fled in panic to the nearby border with Uzbekistan after their homes were torched by roving mobs. Some Uzbek women and children were gunned down as they tried to escape, witnesses said.
The Uzbeks back the interim government, while many Kyrgyz in the south had supported the toppled President.
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