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Pictures: Touts – council go to war

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After a tip off AMH chief photographer Aaron Ufumeli, followed in plain clothed Harare Municipality traffic police officers as they went on a rampage beating up and arresting touts in the CBD on August 26.

After a tip off AMH chief photographer Aaron Ufumeli, followed plain clothed Harare Municipality traffic police officers as they went on a rampage beating up and arresting touts in the CBD on August 26.

This is what he captured.

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Harare Municipality officers  inhumanly carry a tout before he is bundled into the waiting truck at Market square bus rank.
Harare Municipality officers inhumanly carry a tout before he is bundled into the waiting truck at Market square bus rank.
The tout tries his best run away.
The tout tries his best run away.
Officers literally throw another tout into the truck.
Officers literally throw another tout into the truck.
One daring tout tries to evade arrest by running away.
One daring tout tries to evade arrest by running away.
. . .but luck runs out for him and he is beaten up by  one officer in a green t-shirt.
. . .but luck runs out for him and he is beaten up by one officer in a green t-shirt.

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Arrested touts are driven away, presumably to Town House.
Arrested touts are driven away, presumably to Town House.