By A Correspondent | 7 Zimbabweans deported from the UK arrived at the Robert Gabriel Mugabe Airport at around 9am aboard a Boeing 767, chartered from London’s Stansted Airport.

The 7, down from an initial 9, are now heading to Zipam quarantine centre where they will stay during the mandatory 10 days of isolation.

Sources at Gatwick Airport told ZimEye, scores of Zimbabweans were bundled up at 5pm yesterday en route for deportation to Zimbabwe.

Although there was no traceable detail on flight tracking websites, a chartered jet is expected to arrive with the group of deportees at RGM airport on Thursday morning.

The phone number of Zimbabweans deported could not be determined at the time of writing.

The deportations are part of an agreement between the British Embassy in Harare and the Foreign Affairs Ministry in which 6,000 Zimbabweans classified as foreign offenders are being sent back to their country if birth.