By Dorrothy Moyo| The 51-year-old woman brutally assaulted at the head by police on Friday during the unplanned August 16 protests is reportedly now stabilizing after undergoing surgery.
The unnamed woman was caught up in the melee while sitting peacefully at the intersection of Jason Moyo and 2nd Street. She was brutally assaulted by uniformed police officers and the incident was recorded LIVE by ZimEye.com and other media houses.
While some people speaking on camera at the scene claimed her head had split, there was further speculation that she had been killed, following the incident, and others who remained with her could be heard screaming to the police that they should go ahead and kill, the people will not retaliate.
"Urayayi, urayayi-(Go ahead and kill), we will not fight back, nobody is going to live forever anyway!," man says at Africa Unity Square on Friday pic.twitter.com/OqpeCIFPlG
— ZimEye (@ZimEye) August 17, 2019
She was eventually taken into the care of a Zimbabwe Red Cross Society ambulance and transported to a nearby hospital.
Confirming the reports of head injury, the hospital CT scans showed that she was suffering from life-threatening bleeding in the brain and required urgent surgery.
In an update, Dewa Mavinga, the director of Human Rights Watch, Southern Africa said, “Some good news in update from Doctors: Surgery successfully done. Patient is stable and doing well.