Police stations bombed, MDC accused

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By Staff Reporters

THREE Zimbabwean police officers were injured, two of them seriously, after a house in a police camp in the capital Harare was firebombed by suspected opposition supporters, state radio reported Wednesday.

Two of the police constables were reported to be battling for their lives at Harare's Parirenyatwa Hospital following the attack on Tuesday night, the report said.

The assailants, who are still at large, cut through a perimeter fence and threw their bomb through an open window of a house at the police camp in Marimba Park, a low-income suburb close to Glen View, where a bus was stoned by an angry mob on Tuesday morning.

A police post in Mkoba, Gweru, was also bombed the same night, and police said they had arrested five men.

Harare has been gripped by political tension since Sunday when police arrested the leaders of the opposition Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) and dozens of opposition activists ahead of a rally in Harare's Highfield suburb.

Police spokesman Wayne Bvudzijena warned that police would "revise" their strategies to face the opposition elements accused of going on a campaign of violence.

He said: "We all know that we have periodic elections in this country and we also have courts, which these people can use instead of the violent path they are opting for.

"Let me say as police, we will be revising our policing strategies to match such violence and perpetrators of violence will face the full wrath of the law."

The three female officers injured in the attack at the Marimba Park house told state media that they were woken by a loud bang and a fire in the house they share. The officers said tear gas canisters had been thrown into the house.

State media identified the officers as Constables Busman Moyo and Pretty Mashing who had their faces seriously burned and a third, Constable Brenda Malaba, escaped with less serious burns on the chest, legs and arms.

Zimbabwe's information minister had earlier warned MDC activists that they will pay "a heavy price" for what he called a campaign of violence to oust President Robert Mugabe's government from power.

"Those who incite violence, or actually cause and participate in unleashing it, are set to pay a very heavy price, regardless of who they are," Sikhanyiso Ndlovu, the Information Minister said.

"The Tsvangirai faction of the MDC has a long record of unleashing violence to achieve political goals. It has publicly restated its wish to use violence to overthrow government and as a means to power," Ndlovu said. "This will come to grief," he said.

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