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Mutambara MDC Faction Accuses Tsvangirai Grouping in Harare Beatings
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Harare North Member of Parliament Trudy Stevenson sustained head
injuries and a broken wrist in the attack, alleged to have been
mounted by loyalists of MDC founding President Morgan Tsvangirai A
spokesman for the faction of Zimbabwe's opposition Movement for
Democratic Change led by Arthur Mutambara has accused rival faction
members of attacking a group of party officials. Spokesman Gabriel
Chaibva of the Mutambara MDC faction said loyalists of the faction led
by Morgan Tsvangirai attacked Harare North Member of Parliament Trudy
Stevenson, who sustained head injuries and a broken wrist.

Correspondent Thomas Chiripasi reported from Harare on the incident.

Attacked with Stevenson was Harare provincial organizing secretary
Linos Mushonga of the Mutambara faction, a former city councilor. He
told Ndimyake Msakalyele of VOA’s Studio 7 for Zimbabwe he is
personally acquainted with the assailants.

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