Youths ransack teachers’ houses

NINE young male suspects were arrested for raiding the Isize Combined School in the Caprivi region last week, the Police reported on Thursday.

The boys, aged between 17 and 24, broke down the doors of the teachers’ houses, removed the thatching from the roofs and threatened the cleaners with knives and axes. Police searched their homes and found a hunting rifle and 270 rounds of ammunition.The boys were charged with malicious damage to State property, assault through threatening and being in possession of an unlicensed firearm.One of the suspects got away.* On the same day at Oshikango settlement in the Ohangwena area in the North, Anta Sackaria was robbed of US$150 and 4 000 Kwanza by three suspects who were later arrested.The cash has not yet been recovered.* Dawid van der Westhuizen was arrested at Soutputs, Tses, after being found in possession of a stolen goat.Police searched their homes and found a hunting rifle and 270 rounds of ammunition.The boys were charged with malicious damage to State property, assault through threatening and being in possession of an unlicensed firearm.One of the suspects got away.* On the same day at Oshikango settlement in the Ohangwena area in the North, Anta Sackaria was robbed of US$150 and 4 000 Kwanza by three suspects who were later arrested.The cash has not yet been recovered.* Dawid van der Westhuizen was arrested at Soutputs, Tses, after being found in possession of a stolen goat.