White City Stadium “Bomb” Suspect Arrested By Military: Police Refused Access
29 June 2018
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By Own Correspondent| The person who reportedly threw the projectile which exploded at President Emmerson Mnangagwa’s White City Stadium Zanu Pf rally in Bulawayo was allegedly arrested by the military and his whereabouts remain a mystery to the Criminal Investigations Department officers dealing with the case, it has emerged.

According to a report by The Zimbabwe Independent, the suspect was arrested in the aftermath of the explosion.

However, the local publication reports that the police’s Criminal Investigations Department (CID) has been unable to question the suspect as he has not been seen since his arrest by the military.

Security officials who spoke to the local publication said,

“Investigations are continuing; we have come across some good leads yet there are also complications. We have discovered the suspect we are looking for was seized by the army soon after the grenade attack incident.

Witnesses told us this. We have interviewed many witnesses and they have given us useful information. However, we want to interview the suspect; but we don’t have access to him. So the investigations can’t proceed properly.

…After the grenade attack, police interviewed people who told them that they saw some guy who launched an object that was directed towards the VIP stage. The witnesses said the man lobbed the item from about 30 metres to 35 metres from the podium, but it was diverted by a rope before shaving off a security aide’s cheek prior to landing and detonating.

Before launching the object, some people had seen him fiddling around. The suspect was wearing a yellow Zanu PF T-shirt, dark in complexion and nearly 1,7 metres tall. He is about 25 years old. After the incident, he melted in the crowd and disappeared before soldiers and police went on his trail. Police were late and found him already seized by soldiers.”

The explosion injured at least 49 people two of whom died from the injuries sustained during the bomb blast.

President Emmerson Mnangagwa has has said that he suspects that the G40 faction was behind the attack.-Zimbabwe Independent.