Crash injures Tsvangirai, kills wife

Zimbabwean prime minister Morgan Tsvangirai was injured in a car crash on the outskirts of the capital today and his wife was killed, officials said.

Mr Tsvangirai had been travelling to a weekend rally in the prime minister’s home region, south of Harare, when their car crashed with a truck, his spokesman James Maridadi said. No other details on the crash were immediately available.