Politician may have suffered skull fracture in police beating

ZIMBABWE’S main opposition leader yesterday said police beat him repeatedly in the head, back, knees and arm and he lost a lot of blood in an attack seemed intended “to inflict as much harm as they could”.

Morgan Tsvangirai, who remains hospitalised, underwent a brain scan, and his lawyer said he may have suffered a skull fracture and internal bleeding as a result of police beatings.

Mr Tsvangirai, 54, and more than 40 other opposition figures were arrested at a prayer meeting on Sunday in the latest crackdown on dissent by President Robert Mugabe’s security forces and political supporters.