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Namibia: ECN officer takes own life after fuel theft, petrol fire incident – News

Namibia: ECN officer takes own life after fuel theft, petrol fire incident – News

Africa Links 24 with Eliaser Ndeyanale
Published on 2025-11-27 15:29:14

An ECN polling officer allegedly ended his own life after a botched attempt to steal petrol from a generator led to a fire at a colleague’s house at Outapi on Thursday morning.

Omusati regional commander Ismael Basson says the alleged theft went wrong while the suspects, all ECN polling officers, were pouring oil from a generator into a jerrycan when part of it spilled onto the floor in the house of one of the suspects at Aimele 16 location.

Basson says the fuel came into contact…

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