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Kyrgyz state TV building seized in Bishkek

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Kyrgyz protesters have seized the building of the state television channel in the capital, Bishkek

Kyrgyz protesters have seized the building of the state television channel in the capital, Bishkek, channel employees said on Wednesday.

They told RIA Novosti that the building had been ransacked, and that some of the staff had escaped while others remain trapped inside.

It was earlier reported that the channel had gone off the air. Channel 5, a private TV company, has also stopped broadcasting.

Russian TV channels broadcast in Kyrgyzstan are still on air.

Kyrgyz authorities have imposed a state of emergency in Bishkek and Kyrgyz President Kurmanbek Bakiyev has signed a decree imposing a curfew as clashes continue between rioters and police in the capital, where at least six people have been killed and some 100 injured.

BISHKEK, April 7 (RIA Novosti) 

 

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