Situation in Kyrgyzstan under control - Interior Ministry

The last night was calm in the republic. There were no attempts to destabilise the situation, he said.

All the interior ministry units, including the patrol service, worked overnight as normal, he added.

The official noted that voluntary public order squads and militia helped police much. According to various sources, in Bishkek alone about 1,000 members of such squads, together with police, patrolled the city overnight.

On Friday, clashes between the provisional government's supporters and supporters of ex-president Kurmanbek Bakiyev took place in southern Kyrgyz regions.

People supporting the new authorities returned the buildings of the regional administrations under their control relatively peacefully in the Batken and Osh regions, while there were killed and injured people in the Jalal-Abad region.

According to the latest information of the republic's Health Ministry, two people were killed and 59 received injuries, including bullet wounds, in the unrest in Jalal-Abad. The former president's supporters were forced out of the regional administration building. After that, an enraged crowd moved to the Bakiyevs' native village and destroyed and burned the houses of the ex-president's father and two brothers there.

Several people from the former state leader's circle were detained on charges of organisation of the mass disorders. Among them are his ex-adviser Usen Sydykov and the Communist Party's leader Iskhak Masaliyev. A warrant is also issued to arrest former Bishkek mayor Nariman Tyuleyev.

According to the National State Security Service's acting chief Keneshbek Duyshebayev, the former president's elder son Marat Bakiyev provided one million dollars for the organisation of the disorders; Kazinform cites Itar-Tass.