A 23-year-old woman allegedly committed suicide by hanging herself with a rope at Sauyemwa in Rundu on Thursday.

The Namibian Police Force (NamPol)’s crime investigations coordinator in the Kavango East Region, Deputy Commissioner Bonifatius Kanyetu, told Nampa on Friday that the incident happened at Sauyemwa informal settlement at around 15h00.

It is alleged that the young woman hanged herself with a rope in her brother’s bedroom and died instantly.

Kanyetu said no suicide note was left and no foul play is suspected.

In an unrelated incident on the same day, a 50-year-old man was arrested in the Ndonga Linena Constituency for being in possession of prohibited wildlife products.

The suspect was arrested with two elephant tusks during a search at a roadblock in the constituency at around 17h00.

The value of the tusks has not yet been determined.

He is expected to appear in the Rundu Magistrate’s Court on Monday.

Source: Namibia Press Agency