Domestic tragedies at Henties Bay, Ondangwa 0 The coastal community is reeling with the news that a mother has been arrested for killing her toddler daughter while at Ondangwa, a woman is fighting for her life after being stabbed 14 times, allegedly by her boyfriend.Police at the coast yesterday arrested a 31-year-old woman at Henties Bay in connection with the death of her two-year-old daughter.
Chief Detective Inspector Erastus Iikuyu said the woman would appear in the Swakopmund Regional Court tomorrow.
The woman, who lives in Swakopmund and works at Husab mine, allegedly suffocated her daughter in her car on the road from Henties Bay to Terrace Bay.
“It is alleged that before the suspect reached Mile 108 about 112km from Henties Bay, she murdered her daughter and sent a SMS to the father of the child stating that she had killed his daughter,” Iikuyu said.
When the police and members of the Swakopmund Neighbourhood Watch found the woman, she was apparently trying to set the car on fire with the child’s body in it.
She had collected wood and placed it under the car but had not set it alight when they arrived.
At the Ondangwa police station, a 34-year-old man hanged himself in the cells after he allegedly had stabbed his girlfriend 14 times in a quarrel over missing condoms.
The man used the drawstring of his trousers to hang himself before he could be arraigned before the local magistrate’s court.
This incident was confirmed by the regional commander for Oshana, Commissioner Rauha Amwele.
Amwele said the man’s name couldn’t be revealed because his next of kin had not been informed of his death.
The man was arrested on Sunday evening after his 26-year-old girlfriend, Petrina Thomas, was stabbed 14 times in her room. Amwele said the man was due to appear before the Ondangwa Magistrate’s Court when he committed suicide in the police holding cells.
Thomas is being treated at the Onandjokwe Lutheran Hospital, but the police could not say what her condition was. Namibian Sun was informed that she used to work in a minimarket near Omashaka.
The incident took place in her rented room in the Omashaka informal settlement at Ondangwa.
According to police, the man, allegedly her boyfriend, visited her on Sunday evening and they started quarrelling over condoms that he had left in the room the previous night. The condoms were apparently gone.
When Thomas could not provide a satisfactory explanation, he allegedly stabbed her 14 times all over body. He was arrested the same night.
OTIS FINCK & ILENI NANDJATO