A grandmother and her two grandchildren died in a fire at Okombahe on Friday around 23h50.

Police said Tsamases Theresia (88) and her grandson Khaniseb Benhard Nadile Prince (3), and an eight-month-old toddler died on the scene when their shack burned down.

According to the police, the neighbours tried to rescue them, but they could not manage since the fire flames were intense.

Two other children – Julius Tuhupifa Mateus (12) and Paulus Vatekuleni Paulus (6) – drowned in a lake at Oupale Village, Onandjaba, on Saturday afternoon when they tried to swim. Members of the community received the boys’ bodies from the lake.

At Ngoma on Friday at about 12h00, a 14-year-old girl used a cloth to hang herself at her aunt’s house at Schuckmansburg Secondary School, Luhonono area.

The unnamed teenager was told to bring back a teacher’s missing phone. When she brought the phone, it had no sim card. When asked about the sim card, she said she had destroyed it. She then went back home and never returned to school.

Police at Outapi, Annastacia Nandjila Kambuta (11), died of suffocation when she closed herself up in a refrigerator on Friday night at Omakuku village.

There were two murders reported at Rehoboth and Oshakati this weekend. Simeon Booysen (28) died in an ambulance en route to Windhoek on Saturday morning.

Police said Booysen was stabbed in front of Quantum Inn at Rehoboth during an argument. The suspect had not been arrested by Sunday.

A man was arrested at Oshakati after he stabbed Mateus Kashenye (31) with an Okapi knife at Gwaashiya Cuca shop Uuvudhiya.

The suspect had to be rushed to Oshakati Intermediate Hospital after a mob beat him.

A neighbour found Wilhelmina Hamukoto (55) hanging at the Area 7 shacks at Luderitz on Friday at about 19h00, while Victus Bohitile (45) died on Saturday at Rehoboth when he fell off a horse.

The police said Bohitile fell off the horse at about 17h00 at Rehoboth Horse Riding Stalls and was declared dead on arrival at the hospital.

Seven people died in separate road accidents throughout the weekend.

Wilhelmina Namvula Iiyambo (67) and Christina Shimopileni (48) died on the spot after the vehicles they were travelling in as passengers collided head-on along the M0092 road Onavivi village, Outapi, on Saturday around 19h30.

Friedrich Wilhelm Stolzenberg (36), driving alone from Otavi to farm Capbon, died on the spot when he lost control at a curve and the vehicle overturned. The police said Stolzenberg died on Friday midnight just outside Otavi on the gravel road to Outjo.

Another driver, Simasiku Charles Matengu, died on Friday night when he lost control of his vehicle. According to the police, Matengu died along the Malimina road in the Lusese area.

Forty-seven-year-old Frederic Axali Ama-goab died on Saturday at Uis along Omaruru road around 19h00. Ama-goab is said to have lost control of his vehicle.

Johannes Paulus (31), a passenger in one of the vehicles that collided on the Ongwediva/Ondangwa main road on Saturday, died on the spot, while Lubinda Muchila (21) was hit by a car at Onayena on Sunday at around 01h40 on the B1 road between Ondangwa and Onethindi at Okakwiyu area. The police said the driver fled the scene when a mob attacked him. He was later arrested.

Police said three rape cases were reported at Outjo as well as Otjomuise and Katutura in Windhoek.

At Outjo, police said they arrested a man (28) for forcing himself on a woman (26) Saturday morning. The incident is said to have happened at Erf 3985 Kap and Bou location, where the suspect grabbed the victim by the arm and pulled her into a nearby house and raped her.

In Otjomuise on Saturday at around 20h00 at Casamba Street, 8ste Laan, a 28-year-old man pushed out the complainant’s brother from the room, locked himself with the victim (27) and raped her.

Police arrested a 43-year-old man in Katutura after his 20-year-old niece reported him of rape on Thursday.

According to the police, the man had been raping his niece since April 2021. The man was arrested after the niece told her boyfriend about the rape.