BY SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT
HARARE
Gangs of suspected Zanu (PF) supporters have killed four people and left three more with severe burns.
Two of the survivors were burnt so badly that their faces were mutilated.
Isaac Mbanje (34) said the group had been asleep on the floor of a hut in Zaka village, after spending a day helping other MDC supporters to flee more remote villages, when a gang of Zanu (PF) supporters broke in.
“At first we tried to resist, but they just shot two of our colleagues,” said Mbanje.
The two who died instantly were Crison Mbano and Washington Nyamwa, both young opposition activists from Masvingo province. The other two men burned in the attack were Kudakwashe Tshumele (22) and Edison Gwehure (28).
“As a result of fear, we all lay still and they sprinkled petrol all over our bodies and set us alight and then threw a petrol bomb on us,” said Mbanje.
The petrol bomb set the three men ablaze and left them rolling in agony until the inferno subsided. They were then taken to a local hospital, but their burns were so bad, they had to be transferred to Harare.
In another incident, Victor Mungazi, the MDC Elections Secretary for Magunje district in Mashonaland West, was brutally murdered by suspected Zanu (PF) supporters in the early hours of Sunday morning.
Mungazi was abducted during the night by a group of thugs at his home at Magunje Growth Point. They then took him to their offices at the centre, where they assaulted him until he lost consciousness.
Friends and relatives discovered his body lying in a pool of blood ten metres away from the Zanu (PF) offices at about 4am.
Meanwhile, Simba Chikova, a high school teacher at Zaka Secondary in Masvingo was on Saturday also beaten to death. Chikova was taken from his home on the school’s premises before he was attacked on accusations of being an MDC supporter. These latest killings bring the number of murdered MDC activists to more than 70 during the past two months. Â
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