A trial-awaiting inmate at the Keetmanshoop Police holding cells was stabbed multiple times by fellow inmates.

The ||Kharas Police Regional Crime Investigation Division Head, Deputy Commissioner Nicodemus Mbango, confirmed that the stabbing incident occurred this morning.

Ten trial-awaiting inmates escaped from the Onandjaba police holding cells in the Omusati Region on Wednesday.

No arrests have been made so far, and the police are on the ground searching for the escapees.

The number of people with mental illnesses detained in police holding cells in Namibia's coastal towns is on the rise due to a lack of psychiatric wards.