Police search for motive after 49 hurt in Zimbabwe election blast

HARARE (REUTERS) - Police said on Sunday (June 24) they were searching for a motive for an explosion at Zimbabwean President Emmerson Mnangagwa's election rally that injured 49 people.
Vice President Constantino Chiwenga, the general who led a de facto coup that forced long-time leader Robert Mugabe to resign in November, described Saturday's (June 23) blast as a "terrorist act" that would not stop the July 30 presidential, parliamentary and local elections, Zimbabwe's first post-Mugabe vote.
"The police will hunt down the criminals. They will be hunted down and they will be brought before the law," Chiwenga told a campaign rally of the ruling ZANU-PF party in the town of Chitungwiza, 30 km (20 miles) south of the capital Harare.

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