Belarus Nobel-prize winner tells Lukashenko: 'Leave before it's too late'

Svetlana Alexievich warns of civil war' after unrest that followed Sunday's disputed election result

Belarusian Nobel prize-winning writer Svetlana Alexievich has condemned police violence against protesters in her country and urged Alexander Lukashenko to go peacefully.

The 72-year-old author won the 2015 Nobel literature prize for her work chronicling the horrors of war and life under the repressive Soviet regime including the 1986 Chernobyl disaster.