Kyrgyzstan declares day of mourning after ethnic killings

Kyrgyzstan's interim government on Tuesday declared Wednesday a day of
mourning for the victims of ethnic violence in the south of the
country, RIA Novosti reports.
"It is a great loss for us. We will pay tribute to all who died. Today
I will sign a decree on the day of mourning," interim Kyrgyz leader
Rosa Otunbayeva was quoted as saying.
At least 170 people have been killed in clashes between ethnic Kyrgyz
and Uzbek groups in and around the cities of Osh and Jalal-Abad near
the border with Uzbekistan.
The violence started in Kyrgystan's second-largest city of Osh on
Thursday and spread to the wider region in five days of unrest that
saw cars set on fire and stores, markets and residential buildings
looted and burned.