Death toll in Kyrgyzstan violence could be higher

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OSH (Kyrgyzstan): The interim president of Kyrgyzstan has said the number of deaths in the unrest in the south of the country could be "several times higher" than the official death toll which currently stands at 178.

Roza Otunbayeva said on Tuesday that the number had to be higher, due to the Muslim tradition of burying the dead the same day.

Mass graves have been dug in the city of Osh, where the violence started on Thursday.

More than 1,800 people have been injured, according to official figures.

"The number of those killed in the violence in Osh was 132 people, with the total of the injured rising to 1,333. In Jalal'abad, 46 people are dead and a total of 533 injured," the health ministry's press centre said.

But the International Committee of the Red Cross echoed claims of a higher death toll.

"According to the team on the ground, several hundred people have been killed in the fighting, although it's still too early to say precisely how many as a number of bodies have already been buried and may not have been identified or counted, while others remain uncollected," the ICRC said in a statement.

Aigul Sigulina, a spokeswoman for the ICRC in Bishkek, told Al Jazeera: "We think that the number of people killed is higher than reported in the media because we have seen massive amounts of people buried.

"Medical workers have been attacked and beaten, ambulances have been damaged. Even our operations sometimes had to stop because we were going to a hospital and were blocked by shootings and we had to go back."

Meanwhile, suspicion was growing that the fighting between ethnic Uzbeks and Kyrgyz had been deliberately ignited.

The United Nations said there was evidence that the violence was co-ordinated and began with five simultaneous attacks in the city of Osh.

Rupert Colville, spokesman for the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, said "it might be wrong to cast it, at least in origin, as an inter-ethnic conflict.

"There seems to be other agendas driving it initially."

He told a news briefing in Geneva that the UN human rights office had collected witness accounts, including from UN staff, in the cities of Osh and Jalal'abad.

"Several of these reports suggest that the incident began with five simultaneous attacks in Osh involving men wearing balaclavas and carrying guns. It looked like they were seeking to provoke a reaction," he said.

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