The World - News from Feb. 27, 1985
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Five officials of Bishop Abel Muzorewa’s opposition United African National Congress were dragged off a train and shot to death by unidentified gunmen in the western Zimbabwe town of Hwange, a government spokesman said. Muzorewa, a longtime black nationalist leader who was prime minister in the interim government of Zimbabwe Rhodesia in 1979, charged that the killings were the work of supporters of Prime Minister Robert Mugabe.
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