There was drama in Masvingo CBD on Monday afternoon when a soldier escaped from a street fight involving his wife and his girlfriend.

The fight happened on the pavements of Hughes Street, drawing a sizeable crowd of curious onlookers.

Sources said the soldier visited his girlfriend near Central Methodist Church where she sells her wares along the street and gave her a plastic bagful of groceries, sparking a scene after his real wife immediately pounced from nowhere.

The enraged woman attacked both her husband and his lover but the man quickly slipped off the grip and tried to stop his wife from attacking his girlfriend.

He however gave up and escaped.

The girlfriend was also furious saying the other woman had no right to say the soldier was hers alone, claiming she had snatched him from another woman as well. tell zim