17-year-old boy, Iikaha Andreas Shikongo, from Tutaleni High School at Walvis Bay dies after he was brutally beaten by a group of people for allegedly snatching a cellphone

Information reaching Kossyderrickent has it that a 17-year old boy from Walvis Bay died at the Katutura State Hospital on Monday, after being assaulted by a group of people following an alleged cell phone robbery. (Read More Here).

The incident happened at about 03h30 on Sunday.

Shikongo was first taken to the Walvis Bay State Hospital, before being transferred to the Katutura State Hospital in a critical condition.

Shikongo was Grade 10 pupil at Tutaleni High School at Kuisebmond.

Police deputy commissioner Erastus Iikuyu said Iikaha Andreas Shikongo and his friends allegedly grabbed a cell phone from someone in a moving vehicle in the area of Wizy Man Restaurant and Carwash at Kuisebmond, and ran away.