Eleven-year-old boy drowns in pond at Karibib: NamPol

Contributed by NAMPA.

KHORIXAS, 07 APR (NAMPA) – An 11-year-old boy drowned in a pond at Karibib on Tuesday, the Namibian Police have reported.
According to an incident report availed to Nampa, he was a Grade 6 learner at Ebenezer Primary School, where he lived in the hostel. He reportedly left the hostel without permission with his friends aged between nine and 15 years to swim in the pond about one kilometre north of Karibib.
“He is alleged to have jumped into the pond while the friends allegedly told him not to d ...