By A Correspondent- The 51-year-old woman brutally assaulted on the head by police on Friday during the unplanned August 16 protests is reportedly now stabilizing after undergoing surgery.

The unnamed woman was caught up in the melee while sitting peacefully at the intersection of Jason Moyo and 2nd Street.

She was brutally assaulted by a mob of uniformed police officers and the incident was recorded LIVE by ZimEye.com and other media houses.

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While some people speaking on camera at the scene claimed her head had split, there was further speculation that she had been killed, following the incident.

Others who remained with her could be heard screaming to the police that they should go ahead and kill but the people will not retaliate.

She was eventually taken into the care of a Zimbabwe Red Cross Society ambulance and transported to a nearby hospital.

Confirming the reports of head injury, the hospital CT scans showed that she was suffering from life-threatening bleeding in the brain and required urgent surgery.

In an update, Dewa Mavinga, the director of Human Rights Watch, Southern Africa said: “Some good news in update from Doctors: Surgery successfully done. Patient is stable and doing well.

MDC’s Secretary for Public Service and Social Welfare, Maureen Kademaunga said her party was saddened by the police’s brutality on clearly unarmed and defenceless citizens.

She said:

“Her only crime was to sit peacefully while waiting to hear the Court verdict. We are saddened by the police’s brutality and use of extreme violence on an elderly unarmed and defenceless woman.”

The Information ministry said: