169 people ‘killed in Andijan unrest’
Prosecutor general Rashid Kadyrov’s estimate was far below the more than 500 cited earlier in the day by an opposition political party that has been polling alleged victims’ relatives.
Mr Kadyrov said 32 of those who died last Friday were government troops, and indicated the others were militants. “Only terrorists were liquidated by government forces,” he told a news conference, with President Islam Karimov at his side - again contradicting witnesses’ accounts of the violence.
