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July 04, 2008
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Friday
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Jamadi-us-Sani 29, 1429
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Zimbabweans seek refuge in US embassy
HARARE, July 3: More than 200 victims of Zimbabwe’s election violence are seeking refuge in the US embassy in Harare, an embassy spokesman said on Thursday.
Spokesman Mark Weinberg said about 230 opposition supporters were sitting outside the compound’s entrance seeking food and a safe place to stay.
“We are working with international organisations and local partners to look for safe places to take them,” he said.
“Some of them look injured and I also saw a man in crutches.
There are also some mothers with children.”
President Robert Mugabe was re-elected at the weekend in a vote that was boycotted by the opposition and widely condemned as unfair by world leaders.
—Reuters
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