A Zimbabwean human rights group has claimed 120 soldiers are being tortured by military intelligence personnel probing the theft of weapons two weeks ago.

The Zimbabwe Times has reported that an army major said to have committed suicide was, in fact, beaten to death.

Zimbabwe Democracy claimed the torture was being carried out by police and military intelligence personnel working in shifts at the King George VI Barracks in Harare.

In addition to killing Major Maxwell Samudzi, who is said by the state-owned Herald newspaper to have committed suicide, they have left a colonel Garira close to death.

He is allegedly the mastermind behind the theft of an assortment of guns and bombs from Pomona Barracks in Harare.

On 31 October, at least a dozen soldiers allegedly died under interrogation just two days after UN torture expert Manfred Nowak was barred from Zimbabwe.

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