Sporadic gunfire was heard throughout the night but a government spokesman said nobody was killed.
"It's quiet again in the capital. No one died overnight," said Interior Ministry spokesman Abdykalyk Ismailov. "There are still some groups of looters but the city is largely under control."
Kyrgyzstan's new leadership dissolved parliament on Thursday, a day after protesters stormed government buildings and forced the president to flee to his stronghold in the south of the poor but strategically important Central Asian nation.
President Kurmanbek Bakiyev has refused to step down, though he has offered to talk to the opposition leaders who have claimed control of Kyrgyzstan, the former Soviet state of 5.3 million people that hosts both U.S. and Russian military bases.
Events in Kyrgyzstan, where at least 75 people died in violent protests on Wednesday, have overshadowed an arms reduction pact signed in Prague by U.S. President Barack Obama and his Russian counterpart Dmitry Medvedev.
Source : http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE6363CR20100409
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