Kyrgyzstan violence sends Uzbek refugees in flight to border

A Kyrgyz soldier directs Uzbek refugees waiting in the southern Kyrgyz city of Osh near the border with Uzbekistan
Photograph: Faruk Akkan/AP

Refugees line up around an armoured vehicle in Osh while waiting to cross the border into Uzbekistan
Photograph: Faruk Akkan/AP

A mother and daughter at the Kyrgyz-Uzbek border outside the village of Suratash
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A mother holds her son as they wait at the Kyrgyz-Uzbek border
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A mother holds her child inside a house at the Kyrgyz-Uzbek border
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Refugees wait at the Kyrgyz-Uzbek border outside the village of Suratash
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Children at the window of a house at the Kyrgyz-Uzbek border in Suratash
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Uzbek refugees near the eastern city of Andijon while waiting to cross the border into Uzbekistan
Photograph: Faruk Akkan/AP

A woman pleads to cross the border in no man's land near the Uzbek village of Jalal-Kuduk
Photograph: Anvar Ilyasov/AP

Emergencies ministry workers set up a tent at a refugee camp on the Uzbekistan side of the border
Photograph: Shamil Zhumatov/Reuters

Ethnic Uzbek women at a refugee camp at Nariman outside Osh on the Kyrgyzstan side of the border
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Ethnic Uzbek women in the village of Nariman
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Ethnik Uzbek women in a refugee camp outside the border village of Begabad
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Soldiers and volunteers check passing cars and search passengers for weapons at a checkpoint in Uzbekistan across the border from the Osh in Kyrgyzstan
Photograph: Alexander Zemlianichenko/AP

A refugee camp at the Uzbek village of Erkishlok
Photograph: Anvar Ilyasov/AP