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ZRP riot police together with Municipal officers have violently and illegally arrested a woman named Tariro Zhangazha, a member of the National Vendors Union Zimbabwe on the corner of Leopold Takawira and Nelson Mandela Streets.

In a statement National Vendors Union leader Sten Zvorwadza told ZimEye the group of riot ZRP officers and municipal police ganged up to assault the defenseless woman in public.

She was also violently thrown into a truck while being beaten with baton sticks as the duo were moving around confiscating goods from street vendors.

The woman had her child who is about 2 years of age, run behind the police truck. The child was running after the truck as police were throwing teargas on the public in search of her mother whom he saw being thrown in the truck. The whereabouts of Tariro Zhangazha were unknown at the time of writing.

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