Bodies buried in Uzbekistan amid confusion over death toll

Wednesday, May 18, 2005

ANDIJAN, Uzbekistan -- A truck drove up early Tuesday and left 37 corpses wrapped in white shrouds. The bodies were buried, under police guard, in an empty field on the hills overlooking this eastern Uzbek city. Who the dead were, no one here knows.

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