Harare (AFP) - A fire on Thursday destroyed a farmhouse belonging to Zimbabwean Vice President Joice Mujuru, whose husband was killed in an inferno on a different farm three years ago.
No foul play is suspected in the latest blaze, which according to police started when a relative tried to get rid of a snake that had come near the farm east of Harare.
"In a bid to kill the snake, he lit some fire which then got out of control," police spokeswoman Charity Charamba said in a statement.
Mujuru, whose husband was Zimbabwe's first post-independence army chief, was not at the farm at the time of the blaze.
Her late husband, former army chief Solomon Mujuru, died in a mysterious fire in 2011 at another farmhouse, south of the capital Harare.
Known by his war name Rex Nhongo, he led Zimbabwe's liberation forces during the 1970s bush war against the whites-only Rhodesian government.
An inquest ruled out foul play in Mujuru's death, but could not pin down the cause of the fire.
Before his death, Mujuru had been widely seen as a kingmaker in President Robert Mugabe's ruling ZANU-PF party.
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