By Own Correspondent| A Harare woman who was in a shop along Bank street in Harare will rue the day she carried a big bag while doing her shopping after council police dragged her into their truck in a blitz targeting vendors.

The woman, who was busy shopping and unaware that a council vehicle was just outside full of council police got the shock of her life after one of the municipal officers dragged her from the shop to the vehicle accussing her of vending and hiding her wares inside the shop.

She tried to explain that she was on a shopping spree and even showed the council police officer a list of items she was buying but the officer would hear none of it.

She was forcibly dragged into their van only to be later released after the intervention of one of the shop keepers.