Police in the Zambezi Region are investigating a suspected case of murder, arson and defeating the course of justice in Katima Mulilo.

This is after a 42-year-old woman died in a house fire in the Zambezi location during the early hours of Monday.

A case of arson and an alternative charge of murder were opened at the Wanaheda Police Station against a 30-year-old woman who set a shack alight at Windhoek's Okahandja Park, resulting in the deaths of her boyfriend and a female companion.

The gruesome incident happened early this morning.