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Page last updated at 16:15 GMT, Thursday, 8 April 2010 17:15 UK

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In pictures: Kyrgyzstan revolt

Opposition supporters in president's cabinet room

Jubilant Kyrgyzstan opposition supporters occupy the looted cabinet room of President Kurmanbek Bakiyev in the capital Bishkek following Wednesday's bloody revolt.

Government buildings have been taken over and opposition leaders say they have dissolved parliament, forming an interim government.

In Bishkek, the government's headquarters were stormed and ransacked. At least 75 people were reported killed.

A nurse treats a patient in the intensive care unit of a hospital in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan

Hundreds of people were also injured in Wednesday's violence.

A protester draped in a Kyrgyz national flag walks in front of Kyrgyz government HQ

Opposition leader Roza Otunbayeva, an ex-foreign minister, says the interim government is fully in control.

Crowd outside government headquarters in Bishkek

Bishkek is reported to be calm with no sign of police on the streets.

Protesters try to take over the administration building in the town of Jalal-Abad

President Bakiyev is in the south of the country and has said he will not leave.

Men walk past a burnt-out car in front of the government building in Bishkek

The UN Secretary General, Ban Ki-moon, says he is sending a special envoy to the country in the wake of the bloodshed.

The violence that overwhelmed Bishkek and other towns and cities led to widespread looting.

Shopkeepers have been left with a huge clear-up operation.

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