Zimbabwe Students Drowns in a Swimming Pool outside Okahandja

Unam student drowns in swimming pool outside Okahandja

01 Feb 2015 13:30pm

OTJIWARONGO, 01 FEB (NAMPA) ? A 23-year-old student at the University of Namibia (Unam)?s main campus drowned in a swimming pool at a lodge outside Okahandja in the Otjozondjupa Region on Saturday.

The spokesperson of the Namibian Police Force (NamPol) in the Otjozondjupa Region, Warrant Officer Maureen Mbeha identified the deceased as Yadira Tinarwo, a Zimbabwean national.

?Her next of kin are already informed of of death,? Mbeha said.

She said Tinarwo was a third-year tourism student at Unam in the capital.

Mbeha said that Tinarwo and other Zimbabweans had gone out for a birthday party from Windhoek to Midgard Lodge, situated approximately 60 kilometres south-east of Okahandja on Friday.

According to the police?s preliminary investigations, it is alleged that Tinarwo had jumped into the swimming pool on her-own, and drowned shortly before 02h00 on Saturday morning.

Mbeha said Tinarwo and her friends also - from Unam - who were present at the party were allegedly warned by a security guard at the lodge not to swim.

In a separate incident, a 24-year-old Rudiano Ndasheyashange Nekongo allegedly committed suicide near Tsaraxa-Aibes Combined School in Otjiwarongo on Friday afternoon by hanging himself.

His close relatives are informed, stated Mbeha in an interview with Nampa on Sunday.

Nekongo was a self-employed entrepreneur at Otjiwarongo, said the police officer.

Mbeha said Nekongo was found hanging on a tree by a passerby that Friday at midday.

She said the police?s preliminary investigations indicate that Nekongo repeatedly complained to his family members in Otjiwarongo about a murder he allegedly committed in 2013 at Oshivelo in the Oshikoto Region.

His last court appearance in connection with the alleged murder case against him was in December 2014.

He was out on bail of N.dollars 2 000.

Nekongo was expected to re-appear in the Tsumeb Magistrate?s Court on 31 March 2015 for plea-and-trial, noted Mbeha.

Nekongo did not leave any suicide note behind, and no foul play is suspected.

Police investigations in all two matters continue.

(NAMPA)

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