'Resign!': Alexander Lukashenko heckled by factory workers in Minsk

Embattled Belarus president looked shaken as people yelled liar' in fresh blow to regime

• We will win': vast Belarus rally adamant Lukashenko must go

Alexander Lukashenko's grip on power in Belarus took a further hit on Monday, as workers heckled him during a visit to a factory on the outskirts of Minsk and several hundred employees of state television, a key part of the government propaganda machine, went on strike.

The country's vast factories are the backbone of its neo-Soviet economy, and Lukashenko's visit to the state-owned MZKT military vehicles factory on Monday morning was meant to show the Belarusian president retaining the support of the working class, a day after the biggest rally in the country's recent history against his rule.