A new wave of unrest hit Kyrgyzstan on Monday...

Ousted President Bakiyev fled the capital on April 7 amid violent protests that saw the opposition seize power, taking refuge in his home village near the southern city of Jalalabad, where violence also flared on Monday.

Supporters of the former president stormed the Jalalabad police department, the Kyrgyz 24.kg news agency reported, adding that "they were throwing Molotov cocktails at the building and the police fired warning shots."

First Deputy Prime Minister Almazbek Atambayev said that the interim government was working to stabilize the situation in the country and to avoid causalities among the civilian population.

"We will not use weapons against civilian population," he said. "But I am ready to use even napalm against bandits."

Atambayev blamed the unrest in Jalalabad on Bakiyev"s allies.

"A slightly unstable situation in Jalalabad can be explained by the fact that [weapons] were imported there

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