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Mon 06 Jun 2010Kyrgyzstan intervention considered
A Moscow-led security group said today it would consider sending a military force to southern Kyrgyzstan to quell ethnic clashes that have killed at least 124 people in the impoverished Central Asian state.
The clashes between Kyrgyz and Uzbek residents in the cities of Osh and Jalalabad began late on Thursday and escalated over the weekend. Witnesses said gangs with automatic rifles, iron bars and machetes set fire to houses and shot fleeing residents.
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