Latest body parts not yet identified

THE human head and arms found at Grootfontein on Monday were transported to Windhoek yesterday to be examined.

The identity of the person – thought to be female – whose head and arms were found in a black plastic refuse bag near the Grootfontein State Hospital on Monday morning remained unknown yesterday. Chief Inspector Angula Amulungu, the Commanding Officer of the Namibian Police’s Public Relations and Liaison Division, told The Namibian that the head and arms were brought to Windhoek by the Director of the National Forensic Science Institute of Namibia, Paul Ludik.The body parts will be examined further in the capital, he said.Amulungu had little additional information on the matter, but could indicate that the remains appeared to be those of a dark-skinned person.Amulungu reported on Monday that the head and arms were discovered by municipal workers who were cleaning the street along Grootfontein’s Dr Ngarikutuke Tjiriange Road.Bloodstained car seat covers, a bloodstained female nightdress and a black bra were found with the body parts, it was announced.The find at Grootfontein came three months to the day after a female torso that had been cut into two pieces was discovered in a rubbish bin along the B1 road between Windhoek and Okahandja.After further human body parts had been found next to the B1 road between Windhoek and Rehoboth three days later and next to the B6 road between Windhoek and Hosea Kutako International Airport on July 11, these remains were identified as those of Sanna Garoës, a 36-year-old former Kalkrand resident.Garoës had last been seen alive in front of a Windhoek restaurant on June 13.Her death remains under investigation.A member of the Police team investigating Garoës’s death and also the deaths of three other young women who were found dead in Windhoek or Rehoboth in late 2005 accompanied Ludik to Tsumeb, where the remains had been taken to on Monday, to collect the body parts found at Grootfontein.Amulungu has asked people in the Grootfontein vicinity who may be missing a relative to contact the Police’s Regional Commander in the area, Deputy Commissioner Annemarie Goagoses, at (067) 223 5001 or 081 335 2619.Chief Inspector Angula Amulungu, the Commanding Officer of the Namibian Police’s Public Relations and Liaison Division, told The Namibian that the head and arms were brought to Windhoek by the Director of the National Forensic Science Institute of Namibia, Paul Ludik.The body parts will be examined further in the capital, he said.Amulungu had little additional information on the matter, but could indicate that the remains appeared to be those of a dark-skinned person.Amulungu reported on Monday that the head and arms were discovered by municipal workers who were cleaning the street along Grootfontein’s Dr Ngarikutuke Tjiriange Road.Bloodstained car seat covers, a bloodstained female nightdress and a black bra were found with the body parts, it was announced.The find at Grootfontein came three months to the day after a female torso that had been cut into two pieces was discovered in a rubbish bin along the B1 road between Windhoek and Okahandja.After further human body parts had been found next to the B1 road between Windhoek and Rehoboth three days later and next to the B6 road between Windhoek and Hosea Kutako International Airport on July 11, these remains were identified as those of Sanna Garoës, a 36-year-old former Kalkrand resident.Garoës had last been seen alive in front of a Windhoek restaurant on June 13.Her death remains under investigation.A member of the Police team investigating Garoës’s death and also the deaths of three other young women who were found dead in Windhoek or Rehoboth in late 2005 accompanied Ludik to Tsumeb, where the remains had been taken to on Monday, to collect the body parts found at Grootfontein.Amulungu has asked people in the Grootfontein vicinity who may be missing a relative to contact the Police’s Regional Commander in the area, Deputy Commissioner Annemarie Goagoses, at (067) 223 5001 or 081 335 2619.