More than 2,200 people have been evacuated from southern Kyrgyzstan, where ethnic violence has killed at least 170 people, Kyrgyz 24.kg news agency cited the head of the civil aviation agency as saying on Tuesday.
Alexander Nastaev said during the last two days 1,550 adults and 700 children were evacuated from the country.
"Yesterday we sent home 580 foreign residents - to Turkey, Pakistan, Turkmenistan," Nastaev said.
The death toll from the unrest continues to rise, and the government said the 826 people were hospitalized as a result of the clashes between ethnic Kyrgyz and Uzbek that swept through the country's second-largest city of Osh and another southern city of Jalal-Abad starting on Thursday and continuing through the weekend.
Tens of thousands of ethnic Uzbeks have fled across the border to Uzbekistan to escape the rioting, which has seen cars set on fire and stores, markets and residential buildings smashed, looted and burned.
The United Nations Security Council held an emergency meeting on Monday, urging an end to the bloodshed and demanding that humanitarian aid be delivered unimpeded to all needy civilians.
MOSCOW, June 15 (RIA Novosti)
