Final respects

A MEMORIAL service was held for Alexandra Mooren at Swakopmund on Friday afternoon.

Mooren was gunned down a week earlier on the beach at the town near the jetty on her way to work. The service was conducted by Pastors Donner, Keib and Van Niekerk in different languages.The Governor of Erongo, Samuel Nuuyoma, delivered a message of condolences on behalf of Government, saying the murder was a serious setback for the Namibian nation.People attending the service lit a row of candles outside the Magistrate’s Court.On Monday, candles, flowers and placards were placed in the public garden by about 500 people who took part in a silent march for Mooren and other victims of crime.Mooren’s parents, Johannes and Agnes, and her two sisters, Petra and Marcella, will arrive in Namibia from Germany on Sunday.They will scatter her ashes in the Atlantic Ocean from a boat opposite the site on the beach where she was murdered.The service was conducted by Pastors Donner, Keib and Van Niekerk in different languages.The Governor of Erongo, Samuel Nuuyoma, delivered a message of condolences on behalf of Government, saying the murder was a serious setback for the Namibian nation.People attending the service lit a row of candles outside the Magistrate’s Court.On Monday, candles, flowers and placards were placed in the public garden by about 500 people who took part in a silent march for Mooren and other victims of crime.Mooren’s parents, Johannes and Agnes, and her two sisters, Petra and Marcella, will arrive in Namibia from Germany on Sunday.They will scatter her ashes in the Atlantic Ocean from a boat opposite the site on the beach where she was murdered.

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