Thousands of opposition¹ protesters in Belarus have tried to storm the government headquarters, following the country's presidential election.

白俄罗斯总统选举之后，数以千计的反对派抗议者企图冲击国家政府总部。

The demonstrators smashed（粉碎） windows and doors at the building in Minsk, but were later pushed back by riot police.

Four presidential candidates were arrested. Another was injured in an earlier incident.

Incumbent²（现任的） Alexander Lukashenko has been declared the winner, but the opposition claims the result is rigged（作弊的） .

Official results announced early on Monday gave President Lukashenko 79.7% of the vote. This will the authoritarian³ leader's fourth term in office.

During his presidency⁴, the former Soviet⁵ republic has never held a poll seen as fair by international monitors.

However, the election campaign itself was much freer than in the past, correspondents say.

'Mass arrests'

By late Sunday evening at least 10,000 protesters had gathered in central Minsk, denouncing the elections as fraudulent（欺骗的） .

Waving unofficial Belarusian white-red-white flags, they shouted: "For Freedom!", "Down with Lukashenko!" and "Down with Gulag (Soviet-era labour camps)!"

The demonstrators then tried to storm the government building but were pushed back by the riot police.

Dozens of protesters were injured in clashes after being beaten with batons⁶（指挥棒，警棍） , according to eyewitnesses⁷.

More riot police then arrived in central Minsk and began dispersing⁸（分散） the demonstrators. There were also reports of mass arrests.

A BBC correspondent in Minsk says four presidential candidates were among those detained: Andrey Sannikov, Nikolay Statkevich, Grigory Kostusev and Vitaly Rymashevsky.