Zimbabwe: Bridge Collapse Creates Health Time Bomb As Vendors, Touts Mass Onto Site

THE influx of scores of touts and food vendors at the collapsed Nkankezi Bridge in Filabusi, Matebeleland South, has created a health time bomb and stoked other serious social problems, the local MP said last week.

Nkankezi bridge links the Masvingo-Mbalabala, Gwanda and Zvishavane highway. Part of it was swept away by heavy rains last week, making the crossing effectively impassable for both public and private transport.

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