During the unrest, a number of protesters resorted to looting private businesses in high-density areas.
In Bulawayo’s suburb of Nketa, six people broke into supermarkets in shopping centres on Wednesday morning and took just about everything they could get their hands on.
A resident in the area who spoke to TimesLIVE by phone said she suspected that the looters came from other areas.
“They were walking from Nkulumane to raid. No one dared stop them because they were in violent mode. One woman and her husband each had a trolley. She had a child strapped on her back. She kept telling the husband to walk behind her to protect them,” she said.