14 killed in Namibia road crash involving correctional and police vans
‘No words can truly capture the depth of this loss,’ President Netumbo Nandi-Ndaitwah said after 11 correctional officers, one police officer, and two civilians were killed.
Eleven members from the Namibia Correctional Service, a police officer and two civilians were killed Saturday in a road accident in the south-central region, News.Az reports citing the Anadolu.
President Netumbo Nandi-Ndaitwah said the tragedy occurred in a head-on collision on the B1 highway near Mariental, 167 miles from the nation’s capital of Windhoek.
"My heart goes out to the families who have lost their loved ones and to the men and women of the Namibia correctional service and the Namibian police force who are mourning their colleagues. No words can truly capture the depth of this loss," Nandi-Ndaitwah said in a statement.
The accident involved a police van, which was carrying six passengers, five of whom were officers, and a civilian and a Namibian correctional service van, which had 13 occupants on board.
Three of the victims were critically injured and are receiving treatment at a hospital.
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