Zimbabwe: Banket Farmer Lucky to Be Alive After 'Assassination Attempt'

A farmer in Mashonaland West insists he escaped a deliberate 'hit' on his life, after he was shot in the face on his property on Monday night.

Piet Zwanikken, a Dutch national who has been farming on his Riverhead farm for 15 years, is now recovering in hospital with a serious face wound. The bullet, shot at close range, went through his nose and grazed his cheek. On Tuesday morning he was in surgery where doctors worked on rebuilding his nose.

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