CARACAS, Venezuela -- Pro-government deputies in Venezuela's National Assembly on Friday presented a report on the April coup against President Hugo Chavez, accusing his civilian and military opponents of trying to install a fascist dictatorship.

The report provoked a furious reaction from opposition leaders, who insisted the left-wing president and his supporters were responsible for the killing of anti-government protesters in the April 11-14 coup, Reuters reported.

"On April 11, 2002, a bloody, civic-military coup took place," leading pro-Chavez Deputy Tarek William Saab told a news conference held to present the 211-page document.

Following Chavez's reinstatement by loyal troops on April 14, a mixed National Assembly Commission of both government and opposition deputies held several weeks of public hearings.

But, reflecting the deep political split in the world's No.

5 oil exporter, the rival factions in the commission maintained radically opposing versions and opinions of who should be blamed for the violence which killed more than 60 people.

The pro-government parliamentarians' report accused prominent opposition figures of using a huge anti-government march April 11 to try to topple Chavez and install a "dictatorship".

"The coup identified itself with the ideas and methods of fascism," it said.

--- Investigation Plagued by Politics --- In response, one of the opposition leaders accused in the report, union boss Carlos Ortega, insisted Chavez should take the blame. "He's the only one responsible, he's the only murderer," Ortega said in an interview with Globovision television.

His comments reflected the main thrust of a separate report on the coup drawn up by opposition deputies in the mixed investigating commission, where the government holds a slim majority of 14 members to 13.

In its version, the opposition alleged that senior military officers, refusing to obey a presidential order to deploy troops against the April 11 march, assumed control of the nation after Chavez's armed forces chief announced on television the president had agreed to resign.

The National Assembly Commission was due to debate the conflicting reports next week.

The pro-Chavez deputies' report accused Ortega and other opposition leaders of diverting the April 11 march by hundreds of thousands of protesters towards the presidential palace in a bid to topple the populist leader, who has ruled since 1998.

As the march neared the palace, it was met with a hail of gunfire which killed 18 people and wounded more than 100.

"It was supporters of the government who fired wildly against the demonstration," Ortega said.

But the government party deputies said in their report the shooting came from snipers involved in the coup plot and members of the metropolitan police under the responsibility of anti-Chavez Caracas Mayor Alfredo Pena.

"The massacre was a premeditated part of the coup plan," the document said.

Four generals and admirals are facing rebellion charges for their alleged role in the short-lived putsch and several dozen more senior officers have been under investigation.