Crash victims to be buried tomorrow

THREE members of the Iipito family, from Ongwediva, who died in a horrific car accident at Onankali, along the Oshivelo-Ondangwa main road on Tuesday, will be buried at Oshitayi tomorrow.

Filippus Iipito (41), his wife Selma (38), their 10-year-old son Shoopala Vilho and their domestic worker Maria Nakashimba (38) died in the accident which claimed seven lives. Tuuliki (Kathindi) Yatileni, the family spokesperson told The Namibian that the Iipito parents and their son will be buried at Oshitayi near Ondangwa, in a mass grave.She said Nakashimba will be buried at her home village of Onanona in the Ondonga District.NamPol Liaison Officer for Oshana and Oshikoto Warrant Officer Samuel Hamukonda told The Namibian that the names of the three Angolans who died in the same incidents could not be released because their next of kin still had not been informed.The family were on their way to their village, east of the Ondonga District, in the Mangetti area when their pick-up collided with a minibus travelling from the direction of Oshivelo.Iipito was a teacher at Oikango Combined School near Ongwediva, while his wife was a nurse at the Oshakati State Hospital.Witnesses said the Iipito couple burned to death inside the bakkie; their son Shoopala, and Nakashimba, who were in the back of the pick-up, were thrown out of the vehicle on impact.Tuuliki (Kathindi) Yatileni, the family spokesperson told The Namibian that the Iipito parents and their son will be buried at Oshitayi near Ondangwa, in a mass grave.She said Nakashimba will be buried at her home village of Onanona in the Ondonga District.NamPol Liaison Officer for Oshana and Oshikoto Warrant Officer Samuel Hamukonda told The Namibian that the names of the three Angolans who died in the same incidents could not be released because their next of kin still had not been informed.The family were on their way to their village, east of the Ondonga District, in the Mangetti area when their pick-up collided with a minibus travelling from the direction of Oshivelo.Iipito was a teacher at Oikango Combined School near Ongwediva, while his wife was a nurse at the Oshakati State Hospital.Witnesses said the Iipito couple burned to death inside the bakkie; their son Shoopala, and Nakashimba, who were in the back of the pick-up, were thrown out of the vehicle on impact.