Five children drown over weekendA student from Wennie du Plessis High School in Gobabis drowned at the Safari Hotel in Windhoek on Friday night.
The learner, identified as Surprise Kasuto, went swimming after attending an award ceremony at the Safari Hotel that formed part of Science Month.
The Omusati police spokesperson, Warrant Officer Linekela Shikongo, said five-year-old Johanna Nangula Shiimi from Okapya village in the Oshikuku Constituency drowned on Thursday.
Upon returning home after school, she apparently slipped and fell into a canal. Her body was retrieved from the water the following afternoon. The second incident took place at around 15:00 on Saturday at Oshithashembungu village in the Onesi Constituency, where eight-year-old Iitengu Absalom drowned in a well.
Shikongo said Absalom and two other children were sent to fetch water from the well near their homestead. The boy fell into the well and drowned.
The two other boys ran to the house to report the incident but it was already too late to save him. Another child, Kakunauye Tjiriurura, drowned in a well at Outati village in the Opuwa area, while David Kristian, a 19-year-old, drowned while swimming in a dam.
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