A Teenager(17) was arrested on Thursday for allegedly kidnapping and raping a girl (8) at Opuwo’s Okondaune location. Kunene crime investigations deputy commissioner Paavo Iyambo says the victim was allegedly raped and found at the suspect’s house. The girl was taken to the Opuwo District Hospital, Iyambo says. The suspect is expected to appear in...
Colombia’s ELN guerrilla group freed the father of Liverpool footballer Luis Diaz Thursday, ending a 12-day kidnapping ordeal and triggering celebration in his home town. After days of negotiations for the handover, the rebels presented Luis Manuel Diaz to humanitarian workers at an undisclosed location in the Serrania del Perija mountain range on the border...
The Colombian government on Thursday accused the ELN guerrilla group, with which it is seeking to negotiate peace, of kidnapping Liverpool winger Luis Diaz’s parents in their home town last weekend. Diaz’s mother Cilenis Marulanda was rescued hours after the abduction in Barrancas, but his father Luis Manuel Diaz has been missing ever since. The...
Placido Hilukilwa A WORRYING crime trend has emerged in the north, where criminals kidnap their victims with the objective of extorting money from their relatives and friends. Two separate incidents have been recorded in the Oshana Region so far. The latest incident happened on Monday evening when a female nursing student at UNAM’s Oshakati Campus,...
A 20-year-old female student at the University of Namibia, Oshakati campus was allegedly assaulted, robbed and kidnapped by three unknown men on Monday at 18h27 at Omahenene location, Oshakati West in Oshana region. According to Oshana police liaison officer, Frieda Shikole, it is alleged that the victim took a taxi from Oshakati to Ongwediva engineering...
ABUJA, Oct. 1 — At least 25 members of a local church’s choir were kidnapped by armed gunmen en route to a funeral in the Ose local government area of Nigeria’s southwestern state of Ondo, local police said Saturday. Olufunmilayo Odunlami-Omisanya, spokeswoman for the police in Ondo, confirmed the incident which occurred Friday, saying the...