Russia's emergencies ministry will send on Wednesday three airplanes full of humanitarian aid to Kyrgyzstan, where ethnic violence has killed at least 170 people, a senior ministry official has said.
"Three Il-76 cargo planes will deliver in Bishkek a total of 129 tons of humanitarian cargo. Each plane is to take 43 tons, including 5,000 blankets, 10 tons of sugar, 17.9 tons of canned meat and 4.99 tons of canned fish," said Nikolai Pakhomov.
The death toll from the unrest continues to rise, and the Kyrgyz health ministry said 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.
MOSCOW, June 15 (RIA Novosti)
