Car Wreck Kills Tsvangirai’s Wife

By THE NEW YORK TIMES
NYT

HARARE, Zimbabwe — The prime minister of Zimbabwe, Morgan Tsvangirai, was hurt and his wife, Susan, was killed on Friday in a car crash about 45 miles south of the capital, according to officials of Mr. Tsvangirai’s political party, the Movement for Democratic Change.

Mr. Tsvangirai was heading to his rural home for a Saturday rally when the crash occurred Friday afternoon. From his hospital bed in Harare afterward, he told one of his aides that a large truck driving on the other side of the road had come toward his Land Cruiser, the middle vehicle in a three car convoy.

“What he told me was that the truck went for his car,” said Dennis Murira, director of public affairs in the prime minister’s office. “That’s how he put it.”

The truck driver told the police that he had fallen asleep at the wheel, Mr. Murira added.

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