A Uzbekistan nurse is taking care of the wounded at the hospital.

ALMA-ATA, May 14 (Xinhuanet) -- Uzbek President Islam Karimov said Saturday that 10 government troops and "many more" protesters werekilled Friday in violent clashes in the eastern Uzbek city of Andijan, according to reports from Tashkent, Uzbekistan's capital.

    Karimov told a press conference in Tashkent that at least 100 people were wounded in the violence blamed on Islamic extremist groups in the region.

    He said no one ordered the soldiers to fire on the crowd.

    The presidential press office said earlier Saturday that The situation in Andijan had been brought under full control, after days of riots plunged the Central Asian nation's fourth-largest city into chaos.

    According to an official statement, rioters briefly seized buildings including government offices and educational institutions early Friday in the city of 350,000, before the law-enforcement bodies took action to restore order.

    Hostages taken by the attackers at a building were released by security forces.

    Rioters were said to have stormed a local jail, setting free 2,000 inmates, of whom 23 were being on trial for links to the outlawed radical Islamic party Hizb-ut-Tahrir, which the government holds responsible for murdering dozens of people in Uzbekistan last year.

    Armed protesters had rallied in the city since Wednesday to demand the release of the 23 who had pleaded not guilty at the trial that opened in February.

Two Uzbekistan women walked through downtown Andizhan after the riot.

    Violence on Friday culminated the days of protest with witnesses reporting vehicles and a theater being torched and bloodshed in clashes near the downtown square.

    Witnesses reported a night of relative calm before bursts of gunfire at dawn Saturday.

    The situation in the former Soviet republic has caused worldwide concern after governments collapsed in three other former Soviet republics -- Georgia, Ukraine and Kyrgyzstan -- in the past year and half. Enditem