Cops in Harare have opened fire at a car after the driver refused to stop at a roadblock along Seke Road near St Mary’s in Chitungwiza. L...
Cops in Harare have opened fire at a car after the driver refused to stop at a roadblock along Seke Road near St Mary’s in Chitungwiza.Loveness Chiriseri, who had hitched a lift to town in the blue Honda Fit on August 19, was hit by a bullet and injured.
Chiriseri told Newsday :“I left home around 10am and got into a blue Honda Fit which had no number plates and was written ‘for sale’ as I was going for a lesson.
“Upon approaching the roadblock, the driver slowed down, but then proceeded past the roadblock. I think he then changed his mind and stopped within a distance of less than 100 metres. That is when the officer with a gun fired two shots. I don’t know where the other shot went, but the second hit the car seat and my right buttock.”
Chiriseri said the police have been mum over the incident and she was being forced to pay for her medical bills, which have gone over $500.
“The police are behaving like nothing happened. I am paying for my medical bills and they have not even made an effort to find out what happened to me. I am suffering emotionally and financially owing to actions of a trigger-happy police officer,” she said.
The driver of the Honda Fit, Lloyd Sibanda, was arrested for failure to comply with police instructions and is currently out on bail.
He refused to speak on the matter, saying he was in shock.
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