Keetmans resident bludgeoned to death in her house

POLICE at Keetmanshoop have arrested two men who allegedly battered and strangled to death a woman in her house on Friday.

The body of Rachel Magda Maas (55), who lived alone in her house in Keetmanshoop’s Westdene residential area, was found by a friend on Saturday morning. Maas’s friend suspected something was wrong because Maas failed to meet her in town, as they had agreed on the previous day, and did not answer her phone.It is suspected that Maas was hit with on the head with a hammer and strangled afterwards with a piece of clothing, causing her death.Deputy Commissioner Josephat Abel said a post mortem would be done this week.Some belongings, including a cellphone and a sewing machine, were missing from Maas’s house, he said.According to the Police, the cellphone was found on one of the suspects when he was arrested.The two suspects, aged 32 and 26, were arrested after Police followed footprints from the crime scene.The younger suspect had been out on bail on a charge of attempted rape, Abel said.”Acts like this are uncalled for, therefore will leave no stone unturned until we root out these criminals from our society,” Abel warned.They are to appear in the Keetmanshoop Magistrate’s Court today on a charge of murder.Maas’s friend suspected something was wrong because Maas failed to meet her in town, as they had agreed on the previous day, and did not answer her phone.It is suspected that Maas was hit with on the head with a hammer and strangled afterwards with a piece of clothing, causing her death.Deputy Commissioner Josephat Abel said a post mortem would be done this week.Some belongings, including a cellphone and a sewing machine, were missing from Maas’s house, he said.According to the Police, the cellphone was found on one of the suspects when he was arrested.The two suspects, aged 32 and 26, were arrested after Police followed footprints from the crime scene.The younger suspect had been out on bail on a charge of attempted rape, Abel said.”Acts like this are uncalled for, therefore will leave no stone unturned until we root out these criminals from our society,” Abel warned.They are to appear in the Keetmanshoop Magistrate’s Court today on a charge of murder.