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By A Correspondent| 300 machete wielding men were reportedly given sway to surround Matapi Police station for nearly 5 hours, enter it and assault one of the three MDC members who had gone there to report an assault.

Somewhat adding salt to injury, the three “victims” were assaulted arrested while filing their report.

The three are Jonathan, Cleopas and Eriya Chinodya, all brothers.

They would soon see more violence as 300 men wielding machetes stormed into the police station and besieged it.

The siege lasted close to 5 hours according alto an account given by Masvingo councillor Godfrey Kurauone.

Efforts to get a comment from the police spokesperson Paul Nyathi were fruitless as his phone kept ringing without being answered.

When ZimEye contacted, the police commissioner Gen Godwin Matanga, responded by saying he would investigate. He said this soon after taking down the names of the complainants.

The latest update at 6pm (British time) was that the three “are now being transferred to Central Law and Order and the police have been instructed to deny them food apparently because of ‘security’ reasons and two of them are being charged with assault and another one on public violance but the charges may be altered at Central Police station.

“Central police has been instructed to bring more man power in order to facilitate the transfer ‘smoothly’. The lawyer Moses Mavhaire has been denied permission to see them ”

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