Marriane Penda is overcome with grief and anger. Last week she watched as police officers removed the remains of her daughter from a sandpit. Maria Shikongo (20) from Iiyale village suffocated in one of the sandpits at Ondando B in Oshioto’s Oniipa area. Residents have called on sand miners and the Ministry of Environment, Forestry...
Marriane Penda is overcome with grief and anger. Last week she watched as police officers removed the remains of her daughter from a sandpit. Maria Shikongo (20) from Iiyale village suffocated in one of the sandpits at Ondando B in Oshioto’s Oniipa area. Residents have called on sand miners and the Ministry of Environment, Forestry...
RUNDU: Two boys died at Kamundema village in the Kavango East Region, over the weekend after the sandpit they were playing in allegedly collapsed, burying them alive. The boys, aged twelve and nine, died of suffocation. This is according to a report issued by the Namibia Police Force’s Acting Regional Commander in the Kavango East...