At least two people were killed and 13 injured as violence continued throughout Monday in the village of Mayovka near Bishkek, the capital of Kyrgyzstan, local 24.kg news agency reported.
A new wave of unrest engulfed Bishkek's northern suburbs on Monday, when some 2,000 people armed with sticks set several cars on fire and threw rocks at houses in nearby villages.
They tried to seize some 700 hectares of land outside the capital, saying it was theirs to build houses on, but landowners drove them away. The rioters then moved toward the capital, but were stopped by police. After negotiations with the head of the municipal administration they agreed not to enter the city.
Mayovka bore the brunt of the violence, with rioters burning houses, throwing rocks at villagers' houses and pillaging private estates.
Roza Otunbayeva, the head of the interim government, said the situation in the village was under control, and police had detained about 40 initiators of the riots.
Ousted President Kurmanbek Bakiyev fled the capital on April 7 amid violent protests that saw the opposition take power, taking refuge in his home village near the southern city of Jalalabad, where violence also flared on Monday.
Bakiyev flew to neighboring Kazakhstan last week and on Monday a Kazakh Foreign Ministry spokesman said the former Kyrgyz president had left for an unknown destination.
BISHKEK, April 19 (RIA Novosti)
