WINDHOEK – A newborn baby girl was carried off by a dog in Caesar Street, Wanaheda last Tuesday.
Inspector Stephan Nuuyi of the Namibian Police Public Relations Division told the media on Sunday that a person who spotted the dog threw a stone at it, after which it dropped the baby at the traffic lights between Caesar Street and Independence Avenue at about 15h20. The baby is believed to have been delivered at 11h00.
In other news from the police, on Friday at an unknown time at Ngala Shop in Outapi at the Iiyambo Complex items valued N$13 200 were stolen after unknown suspects used an unknown object to break the lock and door to gain entry.
The thieves stole shoes, jeans, sport T-shirts and a DVD player. No arrest was made and investigations continue.
Also last Tuesday at 1am at Trustco Industry in the Lafrenz Industrial Area, 39-year-old Alvin Kativa was held at gunpoint with a pistol, handcuffed and tied up with a rope by several men, who then robbed him of a service pistol and radio. Kativa was guarding a construction site. The men disappeared with a welding machine valued at N$15 000.
No arrest was made and police investigations continue.
By Tunomukwathi Asino