Refugee crisis grows as Kyrgyzstan ethnic violence continues

People run towards buses away from the southern Kyrgyz city of Osh, where ethnic violence continues to rage Photograph: Alexander Zemlianichenko/AP Photograph: Alexander Zemlianichenko/guardian.co.uk An ethnic Uzbek sits by a destroyed house in the village of Shark Photograph: Antoine Lambroschini/AFP/Getty Images Photograph: Antoine Lambroschini/guardian.co.uk A police officer discovers a pistol as he searches a driver at an Osh checkpoint Photograph: Viktor Drachev/AFP/Getty Images Photograph: Viktor Drachev/guardian.co.uk An ethnic Uzbek walks through the debris of a ruined building in Osh Photograph: Kazbek Basayev/Reuters Photograph: Kazbek Basayev/guardian.co.uk A Kyrgyz army volunteer checks a car at a checkpoint on the Uzbek side of the border Photograph: Alexander Zemlianichenko/AP Photograph: Alexander Zemlianichenko/guardian.co.uk Ethnic Uzbek men dig graves in Osh Photograph: Viktor Drachev/AFP/Getty Images Photograph: Viktor Drachev/guardian.co.uk Ethnic Uzbeks listen to the head of local police, colonel Kursan Asanov, during peace negotiations in Osh Photograph: Alexander Zemlianichenko/AP Photograph: Alexander Zemlianichenko/guardian.co.uk Uzbeks survey the damage in the village of Vlksm, west of Osh, after ethnic violence flared Photograph: Reuters Photograph: guardian.co.uk Uzbek women cry over the death of Mukharam Simayeva, 25, who was eight months pregnant when she was shot and killed by a sniper in Jalalabad Photograph: Oxana Onipko/AFP/Getty Images Photograph: Oxana Onipko/guardian.co.uk Relatives pray at the grave of an ethnic Uzbek woman who was killed by an explosion in Osh Photograph: Sergei Ilnitsky/EPA Kyrgyz children look out of a bus window as they wait to leave Osh for Bishkek Photograph: Viktor Drachev/AFP/Getty Images Photograph: Viktor Drachev/guardian.co.uk People walk through damaged buildings at Jalalabad university Photograph: Maxim Shipenkov/EPA Photograph: Maxim Shipenkov/guardian.co.uk Kyrgyz soldiers in an armoured personal carrier on the outskirts of Osh Photograph: Alexander Zemlianichenko/AP Photograph: Alexander Zemlianichenko/guardian.co.uk