By Own Correspondent| Police details on Wednesday descended on vendors selling their wares in Harare Central Business District before allegedly firing teargas at them.

The vendors, some of whom were arrested also had their goods confiscated.

Sources who witnessed the battle between the vendors and the police alleged that the police fired teargas within the CBD to disperse the resisting vendors.

Lillian Timveous from the MDC revealed that the air around parliament building smelt of tear gas.

“We had finished parliament business and the air smelt of teargas,” said Timveous.

Police  and vendors have been recently engaged in a cat and mouse and vendors argue that the economic situation has collapsed and they have no other means of sustaining their livelihoods.