Zimbabwe PM hurt, wife killed

Zimbabwe's Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai was rushed to hospital after a car crash that killed his wife.

MORE INFO: Movement for Democratic Change spokesman Nelson Chamisa said Tsvangirai was taken to hospital but was not in a critical condition.

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Zimbabwe's president Robert Mugabe arrives at Harare's Avenues clinic where his old rival prime minister Morgan Tsvangirai was admitted after a car crash.

The accident killed Tsvangirai's wife of 31 years and mother of six, Susan Tsvangirai

Party officials said Tsvangirai was not critically injured.

Tsvangirai's spokesman said the prime minister was traveling to his home town Buhera when a truck slammed into his car, turning it on its side.

SOUNDBITE: James Maridadi, Morgan Tsvangirai's spokesman saying, (English):

"About 100 kilometres from Harare there was a truck travelling in the opposite direction, and the information that I have is, that the truck encroached into the lane of the Prime Minister and hit the Prime Minister's vehicle on the side and it rolled 3 times resulting in all the occupants in the Prime Minister's vehicle getting injured."

Tsvangirai was sworn in last month as prime minister -part of a power sharing deal with Mugabe who's ruled Zimbabwe since the country's independence in 1980.

Although Susan Tsvangirai was not actively involved in Tsvangirai's party, she has supported him and appeared at campaign rallies with her husband over the last 10 years.

Pavithra George, Reuters