By Own Correspondent|Foreign Affairs and International Trade Minister Retired Major General Sibusiso Moyo has revealed that government regretted the use of force on citizens by soldiers last week which resulted in 6 deaths and injured several others in Harare during protests for presidential election results.

Soldiers opened live ammunition at civilians killing an aunt to tourism minister Prisca Mupfumira, Sylvia Maphosa and 5 others.

Briefing foreign ambassadors at a post election meeting in Harare, Minister Moyo said government was remorseful of the post election deaths of citizens denying that soldiers are going around beating up people as purported by sections of the media.

Said Minister Moyo:

“We as government are deeply remorseful that force was used which resulted in the loss of 6 lives and injury to others.

I now want to address the issues of alleged beatings and abductions of people by soldiers coming out in certain sections of the media.

We have heard that soldiers are beating up people in Chitungwiza and Kuwadzana amonth other areas. We have fully investigated this.

The head of Chitungwiza Hospital has informed us that no one has presented themselves with such a case.

It only happened during the day of the violence that 14 people who were victims of the protest visited the hospital for assistance but they were never detained.”