Amputee killed over alcohol

ELLANIE SMIT

WINDHOEK

A 26-year-old man with an amputated leg was stabbed to death in Katutura over the weekend when two suspects demanded alcohol from him and his two cousins.

According to the police, the incident happened in a riverbed close to the Auas Primary School.

The deceased, Rudolf du Plessis, and his cousins were attacked by two suspects who demanded alcohol from them, but Du Plessis refused.

Du Plessis’s cousins ran away, but he was unable to get away because of his disability.

A 22-year-old man has been arrested after he stabbed Du Plessis with an unknown object.

Du Plessis died from his wounds in hospital on Saturday.

Child raped

In another incident, a seven-year-old girl was raped by a 40-year-old man on Saturday in at Farm Katjapa in the Ovitoto District.

It is alleged that the man lured the girl with sweets to his room.

A 37-year-old man was stabbed in the back with a kitchen knife at Outjo in the early hours of Sunday morning.

He was allegedly stabbed by a woman who he had slapped.

The man was taken to a hospital in Outjo and transferred to Windhoek. The woman has not been arrested and investigations are ongoing.

In a separate incident, a 40-year-old woman was arrested at a shebeen in Aranos on Friday night after she allegedly left her four-year-old daughter unattended at the shebeen. She has been charged with child neglect.

In another incident, two suspects were arrested during an undercover police operation at Otjiwarongo on Friday for being in possession of a pangolin skin which they allegedly intended to sell.

The police also reported at least seven cases in which illegal drugs were confiscated across the country, while three suicides were reported.