Tinashe Sambiri|Scores of passengers were seriously injured after six armed robbers pounced on a Harare bound cross border bus on Sunday night.

The incident happened near Mushagashe Business Centre, 40 km from the city of Masvingo.

The injured passengers are admitted at Masvingo General Hospital after they were stabbed and stripped of their valuables.

According to The Mirror, the Boundary Express bus was attacked by six men armed with pistols, machetes and knives near Mushagashe Business Centre at around midnight just after the Masvingo-Harare tollgate.

The armed robbers stabbed several passengers before stripping them of their valuables.

The bus was going to South Africa and it is parked at Masvingo Central Police.