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.
Zambia's Police Service Commissioner and a magistrate are among six people charged and arrested in connection with the alleged theft of copper cathodes worth roughly N$ 7 million, police said Thursday.
The man accused of fatally shooting 39-year-old Rachel Frans on Friday in Havana made his first appearance in the Katutura Magistrate's Court on Monday, as police continued investigating several violent crimes reported over the weekend.
A 68-year-old mother at Baracka, a remote village located about 25 kilometres from Tsumkwe, is making a desperate plea to authorities and the public to help locate her missing son, whom she says has been missing for five years after being hospitalised.
A 39-year-old man, Alfred Tomas, suspected of murdering his 83-year-old grandmother, Selma Shilongo, at her homestead in Ondiyamande village, Uukwiyuushona Constituency, over the weekend has been remanded in custody.
Three people died in a car accident on Friday along the Omitara-Otjinene road.
They have been identified as Tjeripo Tjeripo, Vandjeka Kutuouvi; and Vezemboua Hiuii.
The deceased were travelling in a minibus that had 15 occupants and was en route from Windhoek to Otjinene.
The man accused of killing a five-year-old boy over the Easter long weekend, Erick !Kharugub (34), has allegedly confessed to investigating officers, detailing in gruesome detail how he killed his minor victim.
The body of an unidentified man was found by a community member on Wednesday morning beneath a bridge on Maria Mwengere Street in Rundu, Kavango East Region.
The South African Police Service (SAPS) has issued a subpoena to Two Mountains Funeral Services, where the late former president of Zambia, Edgar Lungu's body, lies, directing that the body of the late former president be released into police custody.
The credibility of the police investigation took centre stage in the Rehoboth Magistrate's Court when defence lawyer Winnie Christians accused investigators of presenting a version of events that "does not exist" in the bail hearing of Naomi Fisch.
