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Kyrgyz bus deaths a 'criminal act'
Friday, March 28, 2003 BBC
The government of Kyrgyzstan says it is treating the
deaths of 21 people on a Chinese-owned bus as a
criminal act.
Nine spent cartridge cases from an automatic rifle
have been found in the burnt-out vehicle, leading
investigators to believe that the mainly-Chinese
victims may have been shot by bandits before the bus
was set ablaze in mountains in eastern Kyrgyzstan on
Thursday.
The bus was originally thought to have caught fire
after crashing into a ravine.
A government commission to investigate the deaths has
been set up under the Kyrgyz deputy prime minister,
Kubanychbek Dzhumaliyev.
The authorities say they are not linking the incident
to small groups of ethnic Uighurs who have carried out
assassinations and bombings as part of their struggle
for an independent homeland in the Chinese region of
Xinjiang, which borders Kyrgyzstan.
From the newsroom of the BBC World Service
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