Refugee crisis grows as Kyrgyzstan ethnic violence continues

People run towards buses away from the southern Kyrgyz city of Osh, where ethnic violence continues to rage
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An ethnic Uzbek sits by a destroyed house in the village of Shark
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A police officer discovers a pistol as he searches a driver at an Osh checkpoint
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An ethnic Uzbek walks through the debris of a ruined building in Osh
Photograph: Kazbek Basayev/Reuters

A Kyrgyz army volunteer checks a car at a checkpoint on the Uzbek side of the border
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Ethnic Uzbek men dig graves in Osh
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Ethnic Uzbeks listen to the head of local police, colonel Kursan Asanov, during peace negotiations in Osh
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Uzbeks survey the damage in the village of Vlksm, west of Osh, after ethnic violence flared
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Uzbek women cry over the death of Mukharam Simayeva, 25, who was eight months pregnant when she was shot and killed by a sniper in Jalalabad
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Relatives pray at the grave of an ethnic Uzbek woman who was killed by an explosion in Osh Photograph: Sergei Ilnitsky/EPA

Kyrgyz children look out of a bus window as they wait to leave Osh for Bishkek
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People walk through damaged buildings at Jalalabad university
Photograph: Maxim Shipenkov/EPA

Kyrgyz soldiers in an armoured personal carrier on the outskirts of Osh
Photograph: Alexander Zemlianichenko/AP