The Kyrgyz interim government lifted a state of emergency and curfew in the country's southern city of Jalalabad, the deputy head of the interim government said on Saturday.
"We declare the state of emergency in the city of Jalalabad and Sozak district of Jalalabad region," Azimbek Beknazarov said, adding the violence-hit areas expanded.
The violence in the country has worsened in recent days, with deadly inter-ethnic riots on Thursday in the southern city of Osh and gunfire late on Friday in the center of the capital, Bishkek.
At least 63 people have been killed and 835 injured since clashes between Kyrgyz and Uzbek groups began.
Meanwhile, the sources in the Kyrgyz interim government said the death toll might have reached 200.
Earlier the interim government lifted the state of emergency in Osh, the stronghold of former President Kurmanbek Bakiyev, who was overthrown following massive riots in early April.
The southern Kyrgyzstan is threatened with the humanitarian catastrophe since all the stores are destroyed and plundered during the inter-ethnic riots in Osh. The neighboring Kyrgyz regions provide the food supplies to the insurgent city.
Refugees, mainly Uzbek women and children, have been making their way to the border with Uzbekistan.
Earlier on Saturday Kyrgyzstan's interim leader, Roza Otunbayeva, appealed to Russia to send the peacekeepers to help stop ongoing ethnic violence in the south of the country.
However a highly-placed Russian military source said that Russian troops stationed at the Kant military base in Kyrgyzstan, some 20 km south of the capital Bishkek, would not be deployed to Osh.
BISHKEK, June 12 (RIA Novosti)
