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Police open fire as soldiers turn on Mugabe
EXCERPT:
POLICE shot at rioting soldiers in Harare on Monday as unpaid troops sided with the country's impoverished people for the first time in protest against Zimbabwe's collapsing economy.
Tensions erupted when about 50 soldiers were denied money from banks after queueing all day.
The soldiers, who were wearing camouflage dress, staged an impromptu protest. They were joined by hundreds of civilians at the corner of Robert Mugabe and Fourth streets, in the heart of the capital. When armed riot police arrived to break up the demonstration, the soldiers from Cranborne Barracks fought back.
"The pot is now boiling," said an eyewitness. "We have never seen anything like this before, soldiers and ordinary people standing side by side and fighting the police."
EXCERPT:
POLICE shot at rioting soldiers in Harare on Monday as unpaid troops sided with the country's impoverished people for the first time in protest against Zimbabwe's collapsing economy.
Tensions erupted when about 50 soldiers were denied money from banks after queueing all day.
The soldiers, who were wearing camouflage dress, staged an impromptu protest. They were joined by hundreds of civilians at the corner of Robert Mugabe and Fourth streets, in the heart of the capital. When armed riot police arrived to break up the demonstration, the soldiers from Cranborne Barracks fought back.
"The pot is now boiling," said an eyewitness. "We have never seen anything like this before, soldiers and ordinary people standing side by side and fighting the police."
