By Own Correspondent| MDC Director of elections, Henry Chimbiri was on Friday afternoon assaulted by members of the Harare municipal police and Zimbabwe Republic Police riot squad while fueling his vehicle at a service station in Harare.

He reportedly sustained serious back injuries with a doctor who attended to him requesting for a 2nd orthographic angle x-ray.

Chimbiri, who reportedly made a police report under CRB092255 alleged that he was assaulted, arrested and bundled up into a police truck while he was in a fuel queue at Total Service station at corner Second and Kwame Nkurumah streets.

He revealed that the officers who were targeting vendors went about beating up everyone including innocent civilians who were visibly not vendors and were going about their business.

Said Chimbiri:

“The riot and municipal police officers assaulted me and several others including the petrol attendant before bundling me up into one of their several trucks where they continued assaulting me with barton sticks and what looked like broom sticks.

When we reached corner second street and Nelson Mandela avenue they pushed me out of their truck and i landed on my back hurting my backbone.

I am in pain and about to go for a second scan as prescribed by the doctor,” said Chimbiri in a telephone interview.

He is receiving treatment at Parirenyatwa hospital.

Chimbiri told ZimEye that he managed to identify some of the officers who assaulted him and threw him out of the police truck.

Efforts to get a comment from the Zimbabwe Republic Police were futile by the time of writing.