A Machete-Wielding group known as “Team Barca” which were formally led by the gang leader who was killed in a gun exchange with the police near David Whitehead last month fatally hacked and clubbed a police officer at Battlefields mine on Saturday The Herald reports.
The officer, Wonder Hokoyo (27) and his colleague who was seriously injured in the attack, were defending Good Hope Mine workers from a marauding gang armed with machetes and logs and catapults.
Assistant Commissioner Paul Nyathi confirmed the incident and Kwekwe‘s Assistant Commissioner Muswere spoke to the publication and said:
We have dispatched our Support Unit, DRG and dog section into the area to make a follow up on yesterday’s (Saturday) incident. Everyone is on the ground and we are looking for leads. This operation will bring the culprits to book,
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If you had sent paramilitary units to round them up in the first place that could have helped matters a lot. That would have sent a strong signal of the mighty of the state. Your actions are greatly undermining the sanctity of state power.
its being stupid to under deploy .how many times have people complained about this
Makudo aya doing what they want in the country all because of zanu lawlessness. They were bred by zanu corrupt politicians and are now a big problem in our beautiful nation. A once shining state now turned in a makorokoza terror country, where proper companies are banned to do real business which create thousands of jobs and save the nation from sinking. Instead ED and his team of mad greedy vultures choose Mabhinya , makorokoza mashurugwi terror type of business- where the resources are enjoyed by zanu thugs only not benefiting the whole nation. Nyika yave yemakarwe nemapere