Uzbek Troops Seal off Second Town

World | May 16, 2005, Monday // 00:00
Uzbek Troops Seal off Second Town A wife cries over her slain husband's body, one of 500 killed by troops in Uzbekistan. Uzbek troops have sealed off Korasuv where locals took control from government officials on Saturday. Photo by aljazeera.com

Troops in Uzbekistan have sealed off Korasuv, a town on the border with Kyrgyzstan, where locals took control from government officials on Saturday. Korasuv residents have been meeting to discuss how to run their own affairs. The unrest spread to Korasuv from nearby Andijan, where peaceful protests turned bloody on Friday after troops opened fire on the crowd. Several hundred people are feared to have been killed in Friday's violence, according to local doctors and NGOs. Uzbekistan's President Islam Karimov said 10 soldiers and "many more" protesters were killed in Andijan, and blamed the unrest on Islamic extremists.

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