Two boys drowned in a river at Mayara village in the Kavango East region’s Mukwe constituency over the weekend.
The children were accompanying their sister to the river wash clothes.
Headman Moyo Nyambi says the boys’ parents were working in their garden a few metres from the river at the time of the incident.
When their sister returned from hanging clothes, the boys were nowhere to be seen.
“Their clothes were found at the shore where they were playing, and this is the first time this kind of incident happened at Mayara,” Nyambi says.
Kavango East regional crime investigations coordinator Bonifasius Kanyetu has confirmed the incident, saying the search for the bodies commenced shortly after the incident was reported to the police on Saturday.
He says the body of Valentinus Mangundu (7) was retrieved and taken to Andara mortuary for a post-mortem.
The body of Gotfred Kushonya (4) is still missing, and the search is ongoing.
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