 Zimbabwe's only white woman MP was in a Harare hospital yesterday with machete wounds to her head and a broken arm and wrist after she was attacked by thugs from a rival opposition faction. Trudy Stevenson, the Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) MP for Harare North constituency, was battered with stones and iron bars on Sunday in the working-class township of Mabvuku by youths who accused her of turning against the party founder, Morgan Tsvangirai. "It really hurts to be harmed by people I used to work with," she told the Herald newspaper. "They intended to kill me". Four other opposition officials were injured in the incident. Feuding between the two MDC factions has intensified in recent months. "ZANU-PF never physically harmed me," said Ms Stevenson of Robert Mugabe's party.
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