they ferry one of the injured to the hospital and they eventually did. The other man had the bullet removed from his hand by colleagues and refused to go to the hospital because of religious beliefs. Budiriro A Budiriro man said some of the shops had survived the looting on Monday, but because of lack of police presence, looters were going for the shops. He complained that the helicopters had been hovering, but no one was taking action to stop the looters. CHITUNGWIZA At least two people were reported shot and seriously injured in Chitungwiza on Monday morning when looters laid siege to some shopping centres in the town as armed police kept them at bay with sporadic gunfire and teargas. The two were shot at separate times at St Mary's shopping centre as looters tried to storm shops that had survived Monday's raid that saw, among others, a doctor's surgery and a clothing store smashed and completely cleaned out. One of those shot was taken to Chitungwiza Hospital in a wheelbarrow and the other on a bicycle by sympathisers. Their conditions could not be readily ascertained by late last night. A Government Nissan truck was torched in nearby Chaminuka Drive by gangs of rioters, part of the looters that were trying to storm the shopping centre. Police, hard-pressed to contain other incidents in the town were, however, generally on top of the situation. A couple of air force helicopters monitored events over the town throughout the day. By about 5pm when the army had already been deployed at the most dangerous spots, the aircraft and police on the ground had managed to clear the crowds from the near shopping centres, although the situation remained very tense. Traffic was by this time moving relatively unhindered, unlike earlier in the day when certain place were “no-go-areas" for motorists. The Chitungwiza Council's head office, which on Monday was attacked by a large stonethrowing mob as workers fled, was shut on Tuesday, as were all other council promises throughout the town. Chitungwiza Executive Mayor Joseph Macheka's liquor business in Seke was reportedly looted on Monday night. He was not available for comment. It was also relatively quiet on Tuesday at the rubbish-strewn Chitungwiza shopping centre, which was attacked on Monday and severely damaged. But the situation was very tense as hordes of mainly youths, some of them mere children, waited ominously at the nearby wrecked Unit D shopping centre for a chance to rush the armed police and again loot the shops. A twoman Herald crew covering the area came under attack from the mob at about 4pm as it chased the car and tried unsuccessfully to head it off. At Zengeza 2 shopping centre a Spar supermarket belonging, like most of the businesses that suffered damage in the district shopping centres, to an indigenous businessman, was the most severely damaged. Opposite the nearby Zengeza 2 garage, two huge tuck shops known for their wide range of commodities were stripped of everything on Monday night as police battled to protect the Zengeza 2 shopping centre in running skirmishes with looters. BULAWAYO AND MASVINGO The shops in Bulawayo and Masvingo closed early, but no violence was reported. GWERU Thousands of Gweru residents joined their Harare counterparts when they took to the streets demonstrating. The demonstrations, which were characterised by heavy police presence, including an Air Force of Zimbabwe helicopter, started off peacefully, but later developed into sporadic skirmishes with the police, after some demonstrators started breaking shop windows. By mid-morning most shops and banks had been closed.