Alleged mercenaries in irons after plot scare - ZW

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Harare - Zimbabwean authorities put 70 accused mercenaries in leg irons around the clock after learning of a plot to spring them from jail, state lawyers said on Monday.

The men have been held at the Chikurubi prison complex in Zimbabwe's capital Harare since being arrested in March on suspicion of plotting a coup in Equatorial Guinea.

"On Friday senior officials and other officials came to the prison and ordered that the prisoners should be in leg irons. There were plans to spring the prisoners out of Chikurubi," state lawyer Lawrence Phiri told a court inside the complex.

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