HARARE - Police who attended to the accident scene of Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai on Friday reportedly looted cash andcellphones, a senior Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) official said Saturday.Tsvangirai was involved in a head on collusion at around five onFriday evening, 52 miles outside Harare along the Masvingo highway, justbefore the Mhondoro Ngezi turn-off.
He is admitted at a private hospital in Harare where his conditiuon issaid to be stable. His wife Susan, died a few hours later and was taken to Beatrice Hospital where her body was reportedly transferred to a funeral palour in Harare, MDC sources said.
A top MDC official who requested anonymity and who was part of the three-car motorcade travelling with the party president said the policelooted an unspecified amount of cash as well as cellphones.
"The police took advantage of the situation and looted some goods andcash, we do not know how the goods disappeared but we managed to recover some of them," said the MDC official.
Up to now, the MDC official said, they do not know where the goods went.
Police spokesperson, Asssistant Commisioner Wayne Bvudzijena could not be reached for a comment.
Meanwhile Morgan Tsvangirai may be released from hospital, a doctorsaid, a day after a crash with a truck carrying US aid in which his wife was killed.
Dr Douglas Gwatidzo, head of casualty at the Harare hospital where Tsvangirai was being treated, said the prime minister had head injuries and chest pains, but was in stable condition.
State television showed pictures of Tsvangirai in a neck brace, which Gwatidzo said was being used to keep him comfortable.
"We might release him today or tomorrow," Gwatidzo told reporters gathered at the hospital on saturday. Ian Makone, a secretary to the prime minister and member of his Movement for Democratic Change party, said Tsvangirai was "very devastated by the death of his wife".
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