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Kyrgyz conflict an ‘immense crisis’
Loading ...The International Committee of the Red Cross has described the humanitarian situation in southern Kyrgyzstan as an “immense crisis”.
The warning by Severine Chappaz, deputy head of the ICRC, came as humanitarian agencies began delivering medical aid, food and shelter to people who have fled the ethnic unrest in Kyrgyzstan.
The official figure of 191 killed during the deadly clashes, which broke out on Friday in the Central Asian nation, is expected to be as much as several hundred.
The Kyrgyz army has tried to regain control of Osh, the epicentre of the violence that drove much of the Uzbek population from the country’s poor, rural south.
Al Jazeera’s Robin Forestier-Walker, reporting from Osh on Thursday, said that the situation in thte city was still very tense.
Continue Reading at Al Jazeera English.
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