Uzbekistan sticks by account of uprising

An Uzbek prosecutor said on Monday that the death toll from May’s violent uprising in the east of the country had risen by 11 to 187, and that half of those killed were armed militants.

Bakhodyr Dehkanov, prosecutor for the Andijan region, told foreign diplomats invited to monitor the government’s probe into the incident that “terrorists” who were in the crowd of demonstrators on May 13 used hostages as human shields to fire weapons at police and civilians.