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UPDATE: Kyrgyz Opposition Says It Forced Out Government

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Tags: Government, Kurmanbek Bakiyev, Kyrgyzstan, Protests

Kyrgyz troops opened fire on anti-government protesters on Wednesday outside the offices where President Kurmanbek Bakiyev was sheltering from clashes that have killed dozens of people, a Reuters witness said.

A group of at least 10 government soldiers were shooting with automatic weapons from the government headquarters toward a crowd of demonstrators, a Reuters cameraman said.

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UPDATE: The Kyrgyz opposition said on Wednesday it had forced the Central Asian country's government to resign and was demanding the president quit after troops shot at protesters besieging government buildings, killing dozens.

"We have reached an agreement that the government will resign. That has not been signed on paper yet," Galina Skripkina, a senior official in the opposition Social-Democratic Party and member of parliament, told Reuters.

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