A bomb has exploded at the printing offices of a privately-owned Zimbabwe newspaper critical of the government, causing extensive damage to equipment, a company official has said.
"There was a bomb explosion at around 3 a.m. No one was injured but the damage was quite extensive and we won't be able to print tomorrow's paper", said Mr Muchadeyi Masunda, Chief Executive Officer of Associated Newspapers of Zimbabwe, which publishes the Daily News.
Police were not immediately available for comment.
Last June a bomb destroyed a gallery beside the Daily Newseditorial offices after several government officials criticised its coverage of the politically-linked violence which gripped the country ahead of parliamentary elections narrowly won by President Robert Mugabe's ruling ZANU-PF party.
On Tuesday ZANU-PF supporters marched on the Daily Newsand assaulted a reporter in protest at a report in the paper that Zimbabweans had celebrated the recent death of Congo President Laurent Kabila. Mr Mugabe sent thousands of troops to help Kabila in the Congolese civil war which broke out in August 1998.
Reuters