Farai Dziva|There are panic stations within Emmerson Mnangagwa’s government following revelations -through an autopsy report- that a senior intelligence officer was beaten to death.

Peter Munetsi, a senior Zimbabwean spy operative, died as a result of multiple blunt force injuries during the military-led coup that ousted former President Robert Mugabe, according to the autopsy report.

This dismisses claims that he died of illness.

Munetsi was a district divisional intelligence officer employed by the Central Intelligence Organisation, the country’s dreaded spy agency, which authorities claimed was opposed to the coup.

According to a summary of the autopsy examination report conducted by Dr Tsungai Victor Javangwe on November 21 2017 at the state-run Parirenyatwa Group of Hospitals, Munetsi was certified dead on November 16 2017 by one Dr Chinegono at 1 Commando Barracks hospital in Harare, which is run by the Zimbabwe Defence Forces (ZDF).

Javangwe said after examining Munetsi’s body he recorded that he had “sustained multiple graze abrasions on several parts of his body, including on his hands, arms, legs, elbows, ears, forehead, knees and scalp”.