At least 600 arrested, dozens wounded as economically shattered Zimbabwe teeters on the edge

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• Security forces loyal to Zimbabwe President Emmanuel Mnangagwa have violently suppressed widespread protests triggered by a massive hike in fuel prices.
• Zimbabwe police armed with AK-47 rifles detained more than 600 civilians, including pastors, in a brutal crackdown in the economically devastated nation.
• A doctors' group told the Associated Press it had treated more than 60 gunshot wounds in what it has called a "human-rights crisis."
• It is the worst violence since August when Mnangagwa was elected.
• Zimbabwe’s opposition Movement for Democratic Change, said that ZANU PF "thugs" earlier attacked and firebombed, Morgan Tsvangirai House, the party's headquarters in Harare.

Across an economically broken Zimbabwe, AK-47-wielding security forces have been rounding up activists, detaining religious leaders and 'abducting' others amid a fierce crackdown following widespread popular unrest, the Associated Press has reported.

Sparked over the weekend by stunning fuel price hikes, a doctors' group told the AP it has treated dozens of gunshot wounds in a "human-rights crisis."

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