The Kyrgyz opposition claims it has forced the Central Asian country's government to resign after a day of violent protests.
Galina Skripkina, a senior official in the opposition Social-Democratic Party, said: "We have reached an agreement that the government will resign. That has not been signed on paper yet."
He added that President Kurmanbek Bakiyev had left the capital Bishkek amid growing violence and flown to the southern city of Osh.
Another opposition leader, Temir Sariyev, said the opposition had entered the government building in central Bishkek and Kyrgyz Prime Minister Daniyar Usenov had written a resignation statement, according to local reports.
Political unrest over poverty, rising prices and corruption has gripped Kyrgyzstan since early March. About a third of the population live below the poverty line and remittances from workers in Russia have fallen during the global economic crisis.
The opposition said at least 100 people had been killed on Wednesday in clashes that have spread since last month across the ex-Soviet Central Asian country that hosts a US military air base supporting troops in Afghanistan, and a Russian base.
