Security forces confirm police and soldiers clashed on the streets of Harare
Harare — Zimbabwean security forces confirmed on Friday that soldiers and police fought on the streets of Harare earlier this week, as nationwide tension grows under 93-year-old President Robert Mugabe. Witnesses told local media about 100 uniformed soldiers wielding batons and whips charged into a bus terminus on Tuesday night and beat up police officers, leaving many prostrate on the ground. The violence, which underscores friction between the police and army, was reportedly triggered by police using spikes to deflate the tyres of a military vehicle after an alleged traffic offence. "We want to categorically condemn that incident and assure the nation that a joint team has been set up to conduct comprehensive investigations," the police and defence forces said in a joint statement. "We also want to reaffirm that as security forces we are fully united despite this incident," said the statement read out by police spokeswoman Charity Charamba, who declined to take questions from repo...
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