Police in the Oshikoto Region are investigating the murder of a two-year-old toddler.

The incident took place on December 3 at about 20:45 in Ohainghete village, Nehale Lyampingana Constituency.

It is alleged that a seven-year-old boy was left alone in a house with a two-year-old girl, and the boy put sand in the girl's mouth and eyes and killed her instantly.

The boy then covered the corpse with a blanket and hid it in a hut.

He went on to inform some other children, who were at that time collecting firewood, of what had transpired.