Two planes carrying the first batch of humanitarian aid to violence-hit Kyrgyzstan landed in the airport of southern Kyrgyz city Osh on Tuesday afternoon, June 15.

The 20-ton aid includes food, water, tents, medicine and medical equipment, said Bai Yufeng, an official from the Commerce Department of northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region.

A local official from the Kyrgyz interim government appreciated the emergency aid offered by China.

China has sent three chartered planes to evacuate Chinese nationals living in southern Kyrgyzstan, where at least 170 people have died from violent clashes which began last Thursday.