Three of the supporters were seriously injured and rushed to Mpilo Hospital in Bulawayo.
Some of the kombis damaged in the attack belong to Timothy Mukahlela, a Midlands representative on the party’s National Executive Council.
“We had just passed Shangani business centre when people started throwing stones and other objects at our kombi .The attackers blocked the road with boulders and laid an ambush in a nearby bush,” said an MDC supporter, Milton Nyoni, who was travelling in one of the buses.
The Zanu (PF) youths believed to be taking orders from the local Zanu
In recent months, Langa’s constituency has seen an upsurge in political violence.
Last month, the homestead of Pretty Phiri, the MDC Ward 22 Chairperson was burnt to ashes by Zanu (PF) supporters led by Edith Gumbo.
When contacted for a comment, MDC –T spokesperson Douglas Mwonzora was locked in a meeting but an aid who answered his mobile phone confirmed the Shangani attack.
“It is true that MDC supporters were attacked by Zanu (PF),”said the aid.
Thousands of people attended the MDC-T celebrations at which party President, Morgan Tsvangirai urged his supporters to remain resolute in their fight for democracy and acknowledged that they had experienced a mixture of success and failures since the formation of the party in late 1999.
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