By Own Correspondent| Opposition MDC Councillors in Epworth Harare were picked up by “police” in a night crackdown over protests which rocked the suburb and Harare central business district.

Sources who spoke to ZimEye said the councillors were arrested by members of the Zimbabwe Republic Police and other unidentified security details and were said to be taken to Harare central police station.

Said the source who spoke in condition of anonymity:

“I wanted to attend the funeral of one of the victims of the shooting, mai Kitchen but a colleague told me that the police, soldiers and CIOs were beating up people attending that funeral. One of the men at the funeral is now nursing a broken arm from the beatings.

Several MDC councillors were also taken in by the security details in the dead of the night. They were picked up in night raids from their homes and that makes it scary.”

Minister of State Security Owen Ncube issued a press statement Wednesday night attributing the violence which rocked Harare and other parts of Zimbabwe to opposition MDC led by Nelson Chamisa.

Said Ncube:

“The opposition is behind the violence which has rocked the nation…..They should bear the costs of the damages incurred by the victims as a lesson to qould be instigators of violence.”