Keetmans accident cripples resident

AN accident at Keetmanshoop which cost one man the use of both his legs and his right arm recently landed a resident of that town behind bars.

Police yesterday reported that a car driver hit a pedestrian at around 23h00 on Friday. The victim sustained serious injuries, breaking both his legs and his right arm.He has been admitted to the Windhoek State Hospital.A case of culpable homicide was opened and the driver of the car was arrested.The incident happened in the town’s Kroenlein area.* Police at Bethanie are investigating a case of reckless and negligent driving against a 20-year-old man who overturned a vehicle and caused serious injury to two passengers.The man, Jacob Louw, was allegedly driving without a driver’s licence.The injured men were Benedictus Viesh (18) and Jacobs Gomxob (19).* A Khomasdal resident was robbed at gunpoint on Friday morning when two men entered her home in Charmaine Street.The men stole two television sets, a DVD player and a Nokia cellphone before disappearing.The total value of the items are estimated at N$4 697.* A 42-year-old man has been arrested in connection with the murder of a 31-year-old woman at the farm Kalahari Plight 460.The woman had been beaten all over her body and died on the spot, Police report.* A 34-year-old man from Okahao, Shimbamba Shitilu, is alleged to have hanged himself with a wire in his bedroom on Saturday.* A ten-year-old boy drowned in a well at a village in the Ongandjera area on Sunday.He was identified as Wilhelm Shiimi Iikela.* Police in the Ongandjera area are searching for a petrol attendant who on Sunday disappeared with N$4 907.60 belonging to his employer.The incident happened at the Punyu Service Station.* A laptop computer worth about N$4 000 was stolen from the offices of the Ministry of Labour in Khomasdal somewhere between Wednesday night and Thursday morning.* Police in Windhoek are trying to trace an Isuzu bakkie, N73584W, that was stolen from the home of its owner on Saturday morning.The cream-coloured bakkie was taken from a house in Nelson Mandela Street, Klein Windhoek.* Computer thieves broke into a house on Albrecht Conrad Street in Windhoek on Sunday, stealing two computers valued at N$6 000.* The National Health Training Centre at the Ministry of Health and Social Welfare on Sunday night became the latest in a string of Government and private business premises to be targeted by computer thieves.Five central processing units and 11 computer monitors were stolen.The victim sustained serious injuries, breaking both his legs and his right arm.He has been admitted to the Windhoek State Hospital.A case of culpable homicide was opened and the driver of the car was arrested.The incident happened in the town’s Kroenlein area.* Police at Bethanie are investigating a case of reckless and negligent driving against a 20-year-old man who overturned a vehicle and caused serious injury to two passengers.The man, Jacob Louw, was allegedly driving without a driver’s licence.The injured men were Benedictus Viesh (18) and Jacobs Gomxob (19).* A Khomasdal resident was robbed at gunpoint on Friday morning when two men entered her home in Charmaine Street.The men stole two television sets, a DVD player and a Nokia cellphone before disappearing.The total value of the items are estimated at N$4 697.* A 42-year-old man has been arrested in connection with the murder of a 31-year-old woman at the farm Kalahari Plight 460.The woman had been beaten all over her body and died on the spot, Police report.* A 34-year-old man from Okahao, Shimbamba Shitilu, is alleged to have hanged himself with a wire in his bedroom on Saturday.* A ten-year-old boy drowned in a well at a village in the Ongandjera area on Sunday.He was identified as Wilhelm Shiimi Iikela.* Police in the Ongandjera area are searching for a petrol attendant who on Sunday disappeared with N$4 907.60 belonging to his employer.The incident happened at the Punyu Service Station.* A laptop computer worth about N$4 000 was stolen from the offices of the Ministry of Labour in Khomasdal somewhere between Wednesday night and Thursday morning.* Police in Windhoek are trying to trace an Isuzu bakkie, N73584W, that was stolen from the home of its owner on Saturday morning.The cream-coloured bakkie was taken from a house in Nelson Mandela Street, Klein Windhoek.* Computer thieves broke into a house on Albrecht Conrad Street in Windhoek on Sunday, stealing two computers valued at N$6 000.* The National Health Training Centre at the Ministry of Health and Social Welfare on Sunday night became the latest in a string of Government and private business premises to be targeted by computer thieves.Five central processing units and 11 computer monitors were stolen.