Man shot dead by Belarusian KGB worked for US software firm

Victim of raid on flat in Minsk in which one officer also killed named locally as Andrei Zeltser, age 31

A 31-year-old man shot dead by Belarusian security forces this week in a raid on an apartment block in the capital Minsk was an employee of the US-based software firm Epam Systems, the company has said.

Footage shown on state television showed plainclothes officers breaking down an apartment door and a man firing at them as they entered.