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Riot police break up crowds at May Day celebrations

    JOHANNESBURG

    Riot police on Tuesday broke up quarrelling crowds of supporters of Zimbabwe’s ruling ZANU-PF party and the opposition at a worker’s day rally in a Harare soccer stadium, news reports said.

    An estimated 5,000 people had gathered in Rufaro stadium in Harare’s populous township of Mbare.

    Reports said a crowd of Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) supporters gathered on the soccer field to prevent militant war veterans’ leader Joseph Chinotimba from speaking at the main microphone on stage. Riot police moved in to protect Chinotimba and separated about 30 of his supporters from the rest of the crowd, before clearing the field.

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