Baku confirms Azeri injured in Kyrgyzstan riots
An ethnic Azerbaijani was injured on Monday in riots in the Mayevka
village, located near the Kyrgyz capital of Bishkek, according to
Azerbaijan’s embassy in Kyrgyzstan.
The 56-year-old man was hospitalized after having suffered a brain trauma and losing his fingers in the clashes. The reports about the injuries of two other ethnic Azerbaijanis have no merit, the embassy said.
The village is predominantly populated by Meskheti Turks deported from Soviet Georgia in 1944. A great number of Azerbaijanis are said to reside there as well.
Five people were killed and 28 others injured in Mayevka. Nine of the injured persons have been rushed to hospitals and are closely watched by doctors. The figure was disclosed by the spokesperson for Kyrgyzstan’s Health Ministry, Yelena Bayalinova, Russian state news agency RIA Novosti reported.
According to her, hundreds of youngsters staged riots in the village, demanding land plots for the construction of housing. The armed assailants stormed into "the Turk neighborhood", destroying houses and setting tens of buildings ablaze.
Over a hundred rioters have been arrested. Some police officers were injured in the clashes as well.
Roza Otumbayeva, head of the Kyrgyz interim government, said the situation in Mayevka has been taken under control.
President Kurmanbek Bakiyev has been deposed and fled the country, and an interim government was formed. Mass riots have swept through the ex-Soviet Central Asian republic in which 85 people were killed. Bakiyev has lately left Kazakhstan, the BBC quoted officials there as saying.*
The 56-year-old man was hospitalized after having suffered a brain trauma and losing his fingers in the clashes. The reports about the injuries of two other ethnic Azerbaijanis have no merit, the embassy said.
The village is predominantly populated by Meskheti Turks deported from Soviet Georgia in 1944. A great number of Azerbaijanis are said to reside there as well.
Five people were killed and 28 others injured in Mayevka. Nine of the injured persons have been rushed to hospitals and are closely watched by doctors. The figure was disclosed by the spokesperson for Kyrgyzstan’s Health Ministry, Yelena Bayalinova, Russian state news agency RIA Novosti reported.
According to her, hundreds of youngsters staged riots in the village, demanding land plots for the construction of housing. The armed assailants stormed into "the Turk neighborhood", destroying houses and setting tens of buildings ablaze.
Over a hundred rioters have been arrested. Some police officers were injured in the clashes as well.
Roza Otumbayeva, head of the Kyrgyz interim government, said the situation in Mayevka has been taken under control.
President Kurmanbek Bakiyev has been deposed and fled the country, and an interim government was formed. Mass riots have swept through the ex-Soviet Central Asian republic in which 85 people were killed. Bakiyev has lately left Kazakhstan, the BBC quoted officials there as saying.*