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bombing Zanu-PF provincial offices in Gweru last week.
Midlands provincial police spokesperson Inspector Patrick Chademana yesterday said the trio was assisting with investigations.
“We have picked up three suspects in connection with the matter as investigations continue. Investigation is a process and this is part of the process, picking up individuals and interrogating them.”
Insp Chademana could not disclose the names of the suspects.
But, MDC-T’s Midlands South provincial spokesperson Mr James Tsuro confirmed the arrest of the party’s youth provincial committee member Douglas Tsuro, a Mkoba youth district member and Silas Mutendeudzwa.
“I can confirm the arrest by the police of our MDC-T youth member for Mkoba District on Tuesday. I have heard that two more youths were also arrested, but I do not have the full details,” he said.
MDC-T deputy national spokesperson Ms Thabitha Khumalo was quoted in the private media accusing Zanu-PF officials of having “bombed themselves”.
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Said Insp Chademana: “It doesn’t mean that if we pick someone for interrogation, we will take them to court”.
He said the Police Forensic Unit had not yet submitted reports on the cause of the explosion.
Unknown assailants bombed the Zanu-PF provincial headquarters along Seventh Street in Gweru’s CBD last week. No one was injured.
MDC-T was implicated in various politically-motivated bombings targeting police stations ahead of the March 2008 harmonised elections.
According to the whistle-blowing website, WikiLeaks, an MDC-T employee identified as Charles Mutama told US Embassy political officer Audu Besner that the party’s security, intelligence and youth branches planned dynamite and petrol-bomb attacks on targets in the country’s five cities.
Mutama, a well-known MDC-T informant to the embassy’s political section, was recruited during the 2000 student movement and claimed to have received military training in Uganda.
The attacks increased in March 2007.
Among targets that were petrol-bombed are police stations in Unit N, Chitungwiza, Nehanda in Gweru, Marimba in Harare and Sakubva in Mutare.
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