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04 July 2022 / 21:43
Uzbekistan says 18 killed, hundreds wounded in unrest
Uzbekistan's state prosecutor said on Monday that 18 people died during unrest in the autonomous Karakalpakstan region after protests erupted over planned constitutional changes affecting the territory's status last week, AFP reports.
"In (the administrative centre) Nukus, 18 people died as a result of serious injuries received during massive disorders," Russian news agency Ria Novosti quoted Abror Mamatov, an official from the state prosecutor's office, as saying.
Mamatov was speaking at a briefing where a representative of the National Guard said that 243 people were injured during the unrest, 94 of whom were hospitalised.
Uzbek President Shavkat Mirziyoyev has since walked back draft constitutional amendments that would have removed the republic's constitutionally ingrained right to self-determination.
The clashes pose the most significant challenge yet to the 64-year-old's rule since he rose to power from the post of prime minister in 2016, when his long-serving mentor Islam Karimov died.
On Sunday, Mirziyoyev made his second visit to Karakalpakstan in two days. He accused protest organisers of "hiding behind false slogans" and trying to "seize the buildings of local government bodies".
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