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A 44-year-old police officer travelling from Masvingo to Beitbridge was shot and injured while 59 other passengers on board a Smart Express bus were robbed of money and other valuables by six armed robbers a few kilometres from the border town in the early hours of yesterday.
Strong talk doing the rounds via social media claims that the recent spate of accidents involving Smart Express buses was a result of black magic or juju, which has now turned sour.
Police have launched a manhunt for the Smart Express bus driver, Cosmas Marembo, who fled the scene together with his conductor following the horrific bus accident which killed 46 people on Wednesday evening.
Government has declared a state of national disaster an accident in which 46 people were killed when two buses side-swapped at the 166-kilometre peg along Harare-Mutare highway on Wednesday evening.
FORTY-SEVEN people — 45 adults and two children — were killed, while 70 others were injured when two buses collided head-on at the 166-kilometre peg along the Harare-Mutare Highway yesterday evening.