At least 49 people have been killed and more than 600 others wounded in an outbreak of violence in the southern Kyrgyzstan city of Osh. The country's health ministry announced the updated death toll on Saturday, a day after the government imposed a state of emergency in the region.
Several buildings across Osh were ablaze, according to witnesses, in the wake of shooting that began on Thursday night.
"Clashes and exchanges of fire between groups of youths took place in Osh and the neighbouring districts of Karassu, Arava and Uzgen," Farid Niyazov, a government spokesman, said.