A Russian emergencies ministry cargo plane carrying six Kyrgyz citizens who were seriously injured during riots in the south of the country landed early on Sunday in Moscow.

The injured will be treated in the best Moscow hospitals, a ministry's spokesman said.

The plane was sent to Kyrgyz capital Bishkek on Saturday in response to Kyrgyzstan's request for emergency humanitarian aid. It delivered 5.4 metric tons of medical supplies to help the victims of ethnic violence.

Deadly ethnic riots in the country's second-largest city of Osh and another southern city of Jalalabad on Friday and Saturday claimed at least 77 lives and left 1029 injured.

Kyrgyz and ethnic Uzbek groups set ablaze cars, crushed the stores and markets as well as the residential houses. The looters have been rampaging through the streets during the days of rioting.

Kyrgyz interim government passed a decree on Saturday declaring a partial mobilization of the civilian reservists and allowed police and the troops to shoot to kill in order to quench the riots and stop marauders.

According to latest official reports, the calm returned to the streets of both cities with the nightfall, but the humanitarian situation remained complicated as most of the businesses have been closed down and the residents started to feel shortages of food and medical supplies.

Officials from the Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO) are set to gather on Monday to discuss the ways to resolve the crisis in Kyrgyzstan, including possible deployment of a peacekeeping contingent to the violence-hit Kyrgyzstan.

CSTO, a post-Soviet security bloc, comprises Kyrgyzstan, Russia, Armenia, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan and Tajikistan.

MOSCOW, June 13 (RIA Novosti)