42 MDC supporters arrested in clashes

42 MDC supporters arrested in clashes - report

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By Staff Reporter

POLICE in Zimbabwe have arrested 42 opposition supporters after they allegedly assaulted ruling party supporters and stoned houses in a district of south-eastern Zimbabwe, the state-run Herald newspaper claimed on Friday.

Police spokesperson Brian Makomeke said the 42 Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) supporters were arrested earlier this week in Chipinge South constituency in Zimbabwe's eastern Manicaland province, the Herald reported.

The paper claimed "millions of dollars worth" of property had been destroyed. Opposition spokesperson Paul Themba Nyathi told Deutsche Presse-Agentur dpa on Friday that he had not received any information on the arrests and could not comment.

The MDC lost to President Robert Mugabe's ruling Zimbabwe African National Union - Patriotic Front (Zanu-PF) in disputed elections held on March 31.

Zanu-PF won 78 seats to 41 for the MDC.

The opposition says Mugabe's party used vote-rigging and intimidation to win the polls, and has launched court appeals against 13 of the seats won by the ruling party. - dpa
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