The wife of Zimbabwean Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai has died in a car crash.
Mr Tsvangirai suffered what were described as non-life threatening injuries in the same crash.
'I can confirm that Susan Tsvangirai has died following the accident,' a source from Tsvangirai's MDC party was quoted as saying.
'(The car) was hit by a haulage truck. The driver of the truck appeared to be sleeping. He was travelling to his rural home in Buhera where he was due to hold a rally Saturday,' an MDC minister said.
Mr Tsvangirai recently formed a government with President Robert Mugabe, which offers a chance to ease the country's economic crisis.
The new government faces an array of problems including food and fuel shortages, the world's most serious hyperinflation and a cholera outbreak in which nearly 88,000 people have been infected, with nearly 4,000 killed.
