PRESIDENT Hakainde Hichilema and his predecessor Edgar Lungu have condemned the attempted assassination of former USA president Donald Trump during a rally in Pennsylvania. Trump was shot at in the ear on Saturday during a rally in Butler, Pennsylvania, with Secret Service agents covering the former president after a series of gunshots. The man suspected of shooting at Trump has been named by the FBI as 20-year-old Thomas Matthew Crooks from Bethel Park, Pennsylvania. In a statement posted on Facebook, Sunday, President Hichilema said criminality had no place in society. “We in Zambia are saddened by the attempted assassination of former President Donald Trump. Extremism, anarchy, criminality, and lawlessness have no place in any society. The rest of us in...

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