Today.Az » Society » Azerbaijanis and Turks among wounded and killed in Kyrgyzstan riots - UPDATE
20 April 2010 [10:35] - Today.Az
During the riots Azerbaijani citizen Habibov Ahmad, 56, was injured in the village Mayevka around Bishkek, Azerbaijani Embassy in Kyrgyzstan advisor Ilgar Jabbarov said.
Another three Azerbaijanis were slightly injured, the adviser added.
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10:10
Azerbaijanis suffered from the riots in the Mayevka village located near the Kyrgyz capital of Bishkek, eyewitnesses reported.
According to them, affected by the fights between the Turks and Kirgiz, the Azerbaijanis are now at the hospital, a citizen of Kyrgyzstan and one Turk was killed.
Yet it was failure to get details from Azerbaijani consulate in Kyrgyzstan.
Riots are continuing in the Maevka village. According to witnesses, the police do not specifically prevent the events taking place. AKIpress reported that in the Moscow street four army trucks with machine guns escorted by two police cars moved at high speed in the direction of the mosque.
The villagers who were concerned by outrage marauders create self-defense units.
AKIpress also reports that about 600 police officers, supported by armored personnel carriers, left on patrol in the village. A group of young people demanded the allocation of land.
More than 500 people, which local media called "squatters", attacked on the houses of Meskhetians, hijacked two cars of BMW and Mazda. Residents reported that a group of young people on the outlying streets smash windows of homes and asked to send to the village police to stabilize the situation.
The agency "24.kg" reported about attack on correspondents of Mond newspaper and Kabar state news agency, who tried to take photo of events.
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