Staff Reporter<\/p>\n\n\n\n
TWO male suspects \u2014 a 41-year-old resident of a farm in the Okahandja District and a 28-year-old Windhoek resident \u2014 were on Tuesday apprehended in the Oshikoto Region while allegedly attempting to sneak into the Etosha National Park with rhino poaching intentions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
They were found in possession of a hunting rifle fitted with a telescope and a silencer, twenty live rounds of ammunition, three knives, seven loaves of bread, and twelve tins of canned food, and were allegedly unable to give satisfactory answers when confronted by law enforcement officers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
They were apprehended in the Onamutenya village in the Omuntele Constituency, which borders the Etosha National Park to the north.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
According to the police, the two men face charges of conspiracy to commit the crime of illegal hunting of specially protected game species (rhinoceros), possession of a firearm without a license, and possession of ammunition without a license.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Staff Reporter TWO male suspects \u2014 a 41-year-old resident of a farm in the Okahandja District and a 28-year-old Windhoek resident \u2014 were on Tuesday apprehended in the Oshikoto Region while allegedly attempting to sneak into the Etosha National Park with rhino poaching intentions. They were found in possession of a hunting rifle fitted with …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":382338,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-382337","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news"],"yoast_head":"\n