Three suicides reported to cops

THREE people committed suicide over the weekend.

Wayne William Smith, aged 38, shot himself with his pistol in the dunes outside Swakopmund on Friday morning. At Tseiblaagte township in Keetmanshoop, 40-year-old Petrus Anton killed himself over the weekend after stabbing his wife several times and cutting her throat.The wife survived and was taken to hospital in a serious condition.Johannes Shiimbi (49) hanged himself with a rope in his shack in the Havana township of Windhoek on Thursday night, according to Warrant Officer James Matengu.At Tseiblaagte township in Keetmanshoop, 40-year-old Petrus Anton killed himself over the weekend after stabbing his wife several times and cutting her throat.The wife survived and was taken to hospital in a serious condition.Johannes Shiimbi (49) hanged himself with a rope in his shack in the Havana township of Windhoek on Thursday night, according to Warrant Officer James Matengu.

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