Namibian diplomat’s children ‘killed in Ethiopia’

A leading Namibian newspaper has shared a statement from the country’s deputy prime minister saying “the spouse of a diplomat” stationed in Ethiopia “is reported to have murdered her two young children and attempted to kill the third child”.

The third child is being treated in hospital, according to the statement from Netumbo Nandi-Ndaitwah that has been shared by The Namibian newspaper.

In the statement Mr Nandi-Ndaitwah, who is also the minister of international relations, asks Namibians to give the family privacy as they “absorb the sad and shocking news”.