Don't leave kids home alone, police urge
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The police in the Oshana Region have issued an urgent appeal asking parents not to leave their children unattended amid a rise in reports of children drowning in buckets of water or other liquids, such as traditional homebrew.
The latest incident occurred in Oluhwa village in the Ondangwa policing area when a one-year-old drowned in a bucket of water inside her mother's room.
The toddler was left inside the traditional homestead with another child, aged five, while the adult members of the household were out cultivating the mahangu field.
The five-year-old child informed the family members that the toddler had fallen into a bucket of water, which had been left uncovered in her mother's room.
"They rushed to the scene, but the child was already dead," police reported.
- Tuyeimo Haidula
The latest incident occurred in Oluhwa village in the Ondangwa policing area when a one-year-old drowned in a bucket of water inside her mother's room.
The toddler was left inside the traditional homestead with another child, aged five, while the adult members of the household were out cultivating the mahangu field.
The five-year-old child informed the family members that the toddler had fallen into a bucket of water, which had been left uncovered in her mother's room.
"They rushed to the scene, but the child was already dead," police reported.
- Tuyeimo Haidula
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