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30-03-04, 13:53
Least 21 Killed in Uzbekistan Clashes
10 minutes ago
By BURT HERMAN, Associated Press Writer
TASHKENT, Uzbekistan - Confrontations between police and suspected terrorists killed at least 21 people Tuesday, including two suicide bombers, as Uzbek forces laid siege to a group of terror suspects near the president's residence.
AP Photo
There were reports of explosions and shooting in the capital Tashkent throughout the day.
In the northern neighborhood of Yalangach, police stopped a small car and two alleged terrorists jumped out and detonated explosive-laden belts, killing themselves and three police officers and injuring five more policemen, said a National Security Service officer at the scene who declined to give his name.
An Interior Minister outside an apartment building about 100 yards away, said 16 terrorist suspects had been killed there: 11 men and five women. Some had been shot by police but others killed themselves with grenades, said the officer, who refused to give his name.
An Associated Press reporter at the building saw five corpses on a sidewalk. Police investigators and plainclothes security officers with Kalashnikov assault rifles milled about as a white-coated medical officer put the bodies on stretchers.
10 minutes ago
By BURT HERMAN, Associated Press Writer
TASHKENT, Uzbekistan - Confrontations between police and suspected terrorists killed at least 21 people Tuesday, including two suicide bombers, as Uzbek forces laid siege to a group of terror suspects near the president's residence.
AP Photo
There were reports of explosions and shooting in the capital Tashkent throughout the day.
In the northern neighborhood of Yalangach, police stopped a small car and two alleged terrorists jumped out and detonated explosive-laden belts, killing themselves and three police officers and injuring five more policemen, said a National Security Service officer at the scene who declined to give his name.
An Interior Minister outside an apartment building about 100 yards away, said 16 terrorist suspects had been killed there: 11 men and five women. Some had been shot by police but others killed themselves with grenades, said the officer, who refused to give his name.
An Associated Press reporter at the building saw five corpses on a sidewalk. Police investigators and plainclothes security officers with Kalashnikov assault rifles milled about as a white-coated medical officer put the bodies on stretchers.