Uzbek protests worsen as dozens die in fighting

Some 1,000 angry protesters gathered at the site of earlier violence in this Uzbek city Andijan today, placing six bodies on display among the dozens that witnesses said were killed in earlier fighting in the heart of Central Asia.

President Islam Karimov is to give a press conference later today about the unprecedented clashes in his tightly-controlled country, which he has led since before the 1991 Soviet collapse.