Inter-ethnic violence in south Kyrgyzstan claimed the lives of 75 people, leaving over 900 injured, the Kyrgyz news agency AKI-press cited the country's health ministry as saying on Saturday.
The fighting, between Kyrgyz and ethnic Uzbek groups hit the country's southern cities of Osh and Jalalabad.
The insurgents in both cities set ablaze the cars, crushed the stores and markets as well as the residential houses. The looters have been rampaging through the streets during the days of rioting.
"We remove the corpses from the city streets, however there are districts uncontrolled by the authorities. We do not know what is going on there," unnamed health ministry spokesperson said, adding the whole residential blocks had been burnt out during the riots.
Kyrgyz interim government declared the state of emergency and curfew in Osh and Jalalabad as the violence-hit areas continued to expand.
