Gallery: Ethnic slaughter escalates in Kyrgyzstan

Soldiers drive armoured vehicles in Osh, southern Kyrgyzstan. At least 117 people have been killed and more than 1,000 injured after a third night of Uzbek-Kyrgyz ethnic violence Photograph: Alexei Osokin /Reuters Photograph: Alexei Osokin /guardian.co.uk An Ethnic Uzbek, reportedly shot by the Kyrgyz security service during the clashes, lies injured in the village of Naramon, in southern Kyrgyzstan Photograph: D Dalton Bennett/AP Photograph: D Dalton Bennett/guardian.co.uk Uzbek soldiers and security officers assist ethnic Uzbeks fleeing southern Kyrgyzstan as they cross the border Photograph: D Dalton Bennett/AP Photograph: D Dalton Bennett/guardian.co.uk Uzbeks armed with sticks and Molotov cocktails watch as smoke rises from Uzbek villages set on fire by Kyrgyz rioters near Osh Photograph: D Dalton Bennett/AP Photograph: D Dalton Bennett/guardian.co.uk Soldiers travel on an armoured vehicle in Osh Photograph: Alexei Osokin/Reuters Photograph: Alexei Osokin/guardian.co.uk Ethnic Uzbeks gather near the Kyrgyz-Uzbek border to seek refuge in Uzbekistan Photograph: D Dalton Bennett/AP Photograph: D Dalton Bennett/guardian.co.uk Smoke rises from burning Uzbek villages Photograph: D Dalton Bennett/AP Photograph: D Dalton Bennett/guardian.co.uk People argue on a road in Osh Photograph: Alexei Osokin /Reuters Photograph: Alexei Osokin /guardian.co.uk Ethnic Uzbeks gather near the Kyrgyz-Uzbek border Photograph: D Dalton Bennett/AP Photograph: D Dalton Bennett/guardian.co.uk An ethnic Uzbek reportedly injured during morning clashes is treated for his wounds at the Naramon regional hospital Photograph: D Dalton Bennett/AP Photograph: D Dalton Bennett/guardian.co.uk An Uzbek woman cries as she stands beside the wreckage of her burnt home in Osh Photograph: Victor Drachev/AFP/Getty Images Photograph: Victor Drachev/guardian.co.uk Kyrgyz soldiers patrol and secure the area near the airport in Osh Photograph: Victor Drachev/AFP/Getty Images Photograph: Victor Drachev/guardian.co.uk An injured Uzbek man rests in an Uzbek neighbourhood in Osh Photograph: Victor Drachev/AFP/Getty Images Photograph: Victor Drachev/guardian.co.uk An Uzbek man walks in the wreckage of his burnt home in Osh Photograph: Victor Drachev/AFP/Getty Images Photograph: Victor Drachev/guardian.co.uk Uzbeks cross the border zone from southern Kyrgyzstan into Uzbekistan Photograph: Oleg Nekrasov/AFP/Getty Images Photograph: Oleg Nekrasov/guardian.co.uk Uzbeks at the border zone Photograph: Oleg Nekrasov/AFP/Getty Images Photograph: Oleg Nekrasov/guardian.co.uk Uzbeks wait after crossing the border. The village of Yorkishlok has been flooded with more than 32,000 refugees, most of them women and children Photograph: AFP/Getty Images Photograph: guardian.co.uk An Uzbek holds his head in his hands as he stands by the wreckage of his home in Osh Photograph: Victor Drachev/AFP/Getty Images Photograph: Victor Drachev/guardian.co.uk Uzbek men prepare the graves for the victims of the clashes in Osh Photograph: Igor Kovalenko/EPA Photograph: Igor Kovalenko/guardian.co.uk Government troops patrol the streets of Osh Photograph: Igor Kovalenko/EPA Photograph: Igor Kovalenko/guardian.co.uk More destroyed homes in Osh Photograph: Oxana Onipko/AFP/Getty Images Photograph: Oxana Onipko/guardian.co.uk Uzbeks at a bus station that was set on fire in Osh Photograph: Oxana Onipko/AFP/Getty Images Photograph: Oxana Onipko/guardian.co.uk