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Explosion rocks main police station in Harare

HARARE
Sat Aug 2, 2008 3:38pm EDT

HARARE (Reuters) - An explosion rocked the main police station in Zimbabwe's capital Harare on Saturday, but there was no immediate word of any injuries.

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"They (the bomb squad) are investigating. The office where the explosion occurred was not manned and so far there is no indication that anyone was injured," a police official at the scene, who declined to be named, told Reuters.

He could not say what had caused the explosion. Police sealed off the area.

Bombs are rare in Zimbabwe despite political upheaval in recent years, but last year the government accused opposition activists of throwing petrol bombs at some police stations though no one was ever convicted.

The explosion hit the criminal investigations department of the building which is in the centre of the city.

Zimbabwe opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai said on Thursday he was fairly satisfied with talks with President Robert Mugabe's party to end a political crisis.

Tsvangirai said talks would resume as planned on Sunday with Mugabe's ZANU-PF party. Power-sharing negotiations began last week under international pressure after Mugabe's unopposed re-election in a poll dismissed around the world as a sham.

(Reporting by MacDonald Dzirutwe, edited by Richard Meares)



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