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2 tankers petrol-bombed in Zim
29/03/2007 12:45 - (SA)
Harare - Two petrol tankers have been petrol-bombed in Zimbabwe's eastern city of Mutare in the latest attack to hit the crisis-ridden country, reports said on Thursday.
In the latest terror bombing, two petrol tankers were bombed along Sanhanga Road in Mutare on Wednesday, said the state-controlled Herald newspaper.
The Herald said police quickly doused the fire before it spread.
There were no reports of extensive damage.
State media accuse the opposition Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) of being behind a string of petrol bomb attacks, but the party denies this.
Police say they have so far recorded nine petrol bomb attacks in the past two weeks.
Overnight on Tuesday they mounted a crackdown in which 35 opposition activists and party officials including an MP and a member of the party's national executive committee were rounded up.
Political tension
Police claimed late on Wednesday that they had discovered explosives and detonators at the Harare home of one MDC official, Piniel Denga, following a police raid.
There was no immediate response by the MDC to the claim.
Zimbabwe has been gripped by political tension since the March 11 arrest and assault of key opposition and civil rights activists.
The state-sponsored crackdown against the opposition has provoked renewed international condemnation of President Robert Mugabe's government.
- Sapa-dpa
- SAPA
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