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MINSK, Belarus — Belarus' domestic security agency, which still goes under its Soviet-era name KGB, says it has arrested three people on suspicion of placing fireworks that shattered windows in one of its buildings.

The KGB said the fireworks didn’t hurt anyone when they went off late Sunday outside the KGB’s regional headquarters in the city of Vitebsk, about 250 kilometers (155 miles) northeast of the capital, Minsk.

It said one of those arrested “looked abnormal” and allegedly swore at the government of this ex-Soviet nation of 10 million located between Poland and Russia.

Belarus’ authoritarian President Alexander Lukashenko has ruled the country with an iron fist since 1994, cracking down on dissent and independent media and extending his rule through elections that Western observers have criticized as undemocratic.