Two Uzbeks killed in brawl near St. Petersburg, Russia

The victims, natives of the Central Asian nation of Uzbekistan, died of apparent knife wounds suffered in a fight in the town of Pushkin, ITAR-Tass reported, citing police. Interfax said the fight involved more than eight other people but that their identities were uncertain because they dispersed before police arrived.

Russia has been plagued by attacks on foreigners, in many cases generally darker-skinned immigrants or labor migrants from the ex-Soviet republics of Central Asia and the Caucasus. There have been numerous attacks on African or Asian students and other foreigners in St. Petersburg, several of them fatal. The Associated Press

/The International Herald Tribune/