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Gallery: Ethnic slaughter escalates in Kyrgyzstan

Kyrgyzstan violence: Soldiers drive armoured vehicles in the city of Osh in southern Kyrgyzstan
Soldiers drive armoured vehicles in Osh, southern Kyrgyzstan. At least 117 people have been killed and more than 1,000 injured after a third night of Uzbek-Kyrgyz ethnic violence
Photograph: Alexei Osokin /Reuters
Kyrgyzstan violence: A boy, an Ethnic Uzbek reportedly shot during recent clashes, lies injured
An Ethnic Uzbek, reportedly shot by the Kyrgyz security service during the clashes, lies injured in the village of Naramon, in southern Kyrgyzstan
Photograph: D Dalton Bennett/AP
Kyrgyzstan violence: Uzbekistan soldiers and security officers assist ethnic Uzbeks
Uzbek soldiers and security officers assist ethnic Uzbeks fleeing southern Kyrgyzstan as they cross the border
Photograph: D Dalton Bennett/AP
Kyrgyzstan violence: Members of ethnic Uzbek community armed with sticks and Molotov cocktails
Uzbeks armed with sticks and Molotov cocktails watch as smoke rises from Uzbek villages set on fire by Kyrgyz rioters near Osh
Photograph: D Dalton Bennett/AP
Kyrgyzstan violence: Soldiers sit on an armoured vehicle near a crowd on a street in Osh
Soldiers travel on an armoured vehicle in Osh
Photograph: Alexei Osokin/Reuters
Kyrgyzstan violence: Ethnic Uzbeks gather near the Kyrgyz-Uzbek border in southern Kyrgyzstan
Ethnic Uzbeks gather near the Kyrgyz-Uzbek border to seek refuge in Uzbekistan
Photograph: D Dalton Bennett/AP
Kyrgyzstan violence: Smoke rises from ethnic Uzbeks' villages set on fire by Kyrgyz attackers
Smoke rises from burning Uzbek villages
Photograph: D Dalton Bennett/AP
Kyrgyzstan violence: People argue on a road in Osh, southern Kyrgyzstan
People argue on a road in Osh
Photograph: Alexei Osokin /Reuters
Kyrgyzstan violence: Ethnic Uzbeks gather near the Kyrgyz-Uzbek border in southern Kyrgyzstan
Ethnic Uzbeks gather near the Kyrgyz-Uzbek border
Photograph: D Dalton Bennett/AP
Kyrgyzstan violence: An Ethnic Uzbek reportedly injured during morning  clashes
An ethnic Uzbek reportedly injured during morning clashes is treated for his wounds at the Naramon regional hospital
Photograph: D Dalton Bennett/AP
Kyrgyzstan violence: An Ethnik Uzbek woman cries beside the wreckage of her home in Osh
An Uzbek woman cries as she stands beside the wreckage of her burnt home in Osh
Photograph: Victor Drachev/AFP/Getty Images
Kyrgyzstan violence: Kyrgyz soldiers patrol and secure the area near the airport in Osh
Kyrgyz soldiers patrol and secure the area near the airport in Osh
Photograph: Victor Drachev/AFP/Getty Images
Kyrgyzstan violence: An injured ethnic Uzbek man rests in an Uzbek neighbourhood in Osh
An injured Uzbek man rests in an Uzbek neighbourhood in Osh
Photograph: Victor Drachev/AFP/Getty Images
Kyrgyzstan violence: An Ethnik Uzbek man walks in the wreckage of his burned home in Osh
An Uzbek man walks in the wreckage of his burnt home in Osh
Photograph: Victor Drachev/AFP/Getty Images
Kyrgyzstan violence: Ethnic Uzbeks cross the border from southern Kyrgyzstan into Uzbekistan
Uzbeks cross the border zone from southern Kyrgyzstan into Uzbekistan
Photograph: Oleg Nekrasov/AFP/Getty Images
Kyrgyzstan violence: Ethnic Uzbeks cross through the border zone from southern Kyrgyzstan
Uzbeks at the border zone
Photograph: Oleg Nekrasov/AFP/Getty Images
Kyrgyzstan violence: Ethnik Uzbek wait after crossing the Kyrgyzstan and Uzbekistan border
Uzbeks wait after crossing the border. The village of Yorkishlok has been flooded with more than 32,000 refugees, most of them women and children
Photograph: AFP/Getty Images
Kyrgyzstan violence: An Ethnik Uzbek stands beside the wreckage of his burned out home
An Uzbek holds his head in his hands as he stands by the wreckage of his home in Osh
Photograph: Victor Drachev/AFP/Getty Images
Kyrgyzstan violence: Uzbek men prepare the graves for the victims of the ethnic clashes
Uzbek men prepare the graves for the victims of the clashes in Osh
Photograph: Igor Kovalenko/EPA
Kyrgyzstan violence: Government troops in an APC patrol the streets of  Osh
Government troops patrol the streets of Osh
Photograph: Igor Kovalenko/EPA
Kyrgyzstan violence: Ethnic Uzbeks walk beside the wreckage of burned houses in Osh
More destroyed homes in Osh
Photograph: Oxana Onipko/AFP/Getty Images
Kyrgyzstan violence: Ethnic Uzbeks stand near the burned out bus station in Osh
Uzbeks at a bus station that was set on fire in Osh
Photograph: Oxana Onipko/AFP/Getty Images
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