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Help find this missing girl Eileen van der Schyff 14-year-old Blessing Hanganda (pictured) went missing on Saturday 29 February. She was last seen leaving her home in Narraville at Walvis Bay. Hanganda has not returned home since then. Search efforts thus far by the police and her parents proved unsuccessful. Anyone with information about the whereabouts of Hanganda please contact Hanganda's father at 081 651 0988, her mother, 081 252 9777 or alternatively Warrant Officer Povanhu at 081 308 9195, or report the information at your nearest police station.
Is the same gang responsible for Omaruru attacks?
inside Langstrand residents clean up
Sharlien Tjambari
The Namibian Police in Erongo is not ruling out the possibility that the same gang of armed robbers might be behind an armed robbery at Omaruru on Sunday morning and a farm attack a day later south of the town in which a female victim was shot in the face and leg (see report of fuel service station armed robbery on page 4). Two men with their faces covered attacked a 48 year old woman on the farm Kanona at around 21:00. They grabbed her, but she managed to free her. She ran to her vehicle and drove off at high speed. Unbeknown to her a third suspect lay in wait and as she sped off he shot at the vehicle, with a bullet hitting her in the face and in her right leg. The suspects then entered the house and took with them a laptop and a telescope. “It is believed that they were a getaway vehicle waiting for them on the main road nearby.� The armed robber of both incidents (if not the same gang) is still at large.
Sunken trawler Resplendent went down in water 318 metres deep Hangana Seafood Processors consults the best in the salvage industry - wreck most probably the last resting place of the missing skipper and hero Carlo Gordon
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Have-aHeart makes a difference once more
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Locker vom Hocker
Eileen van der Schyff Hangana Seafood Processors consulted the world-renowned salvage master Captain Nick Sloane to ascertain whether there were any chances to reach the wreck of its sunken fishing trawler, Resplendent. Resplendent went down with its skipper Carlo Gordon on 18 February this year in a water depth of 318 metres. On expert advice from Sloane, an aerial search for the missing captain was the next best practical solution to try and find the missing skipper.
The missing skipper Carlo Gordon
Captain Sloane, which is the owner of Resolve Marine Group based in Fort Lauderdale in Florida (USA) was the mastermind behind the recovery of the passenger ship Costa Concordia which ran aground and topped over off the Italian coast in the Mediterranean Sea in 2012. On the advice of Captain Sloane the services of Bay Air Aviation were procured to conduct an aerial search in the area where the sinking
Captain Nick Sloane
occurred, in the hopes to recover the missing skipper Gordon. In later days the family of the missing Skipper Gordon were flown to the area where a moment of silence was observed where the ship went down and flowers scattered on the water in his memory. Hangana Seafood Processors in a press release this week provided a detailed account of the last Continues on page 2
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Rivalry continues
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