Supporters of Kyrgyzstan's ousted president have stormed a second regional government building in the south of the country.
Supporters of Kurmanbek Bakiyev, who was ousted in a revolt last month, broke into a local government building in the city of Jalalabad, according to Russia's RIA news agency.
Earlier Kyrgyzstan's interim government had accused supporters of ousted Kyrgyz President Kurmanbek Bakiyev of plotting a coup after they seized a regional government office in the southern city of Osh.
Supporters of Bakiyev, toppled in last month's violent revolt, reportedly scuffled with guards and entered the government building after holding a demonstration that drew about 1,000 people.
Any worsening of tensions in Osh, at the heart of Central Asia's most flammable and ethnically divided corner, would be of concern to regional powers keen to maintain stability in a country home to a US and a Russian military air base.
‘Yesterday... they planned to storm the parliament and declare a new government,’ Omurbek Tekebayev, a deputy prime minister in the interim government said.
Yesterday, the government faced its first large public protest in the capital, Bishkek, as hundreds of opponents, many of them members of Bakiyev's Ak Zhol party and the allied Communists, demonstrated against the dissolution of parliament.
Mr Tekebayev said unrest in Osh, where police had to intervene to end a brief brawl between the supporters and the opponents of the new government, was part of the same plan.
‘This (plan) has failed in Bishkek and today they tried to do it in Osh,’ he said.
Mr Tekebayev said the interim government had sent Defence Minister Ismail Isakov to Osh and that government supporters were rallying forces there.
Protesters in Osh have brought a pro-Bakiyev regional governor, sacked by the interim government, into his former office which they have occupied.
