Windhoek — THE Police at Ondangwa have arrested a 21-year-old woman on a murder charge after she allegedly dumped her newborn baby in the bush.

According to Constable Jonas Matheus, the woman will appear in court once she has been discharged from hospital.

He said the young woman's parents called the Police when they noticed that she was no longer pregnant, and neither had she brought a baby home.

She allegedly told them that she had given birth to a stillborn baby and left it in the veld.

The woman was admitted to the Onandjokwe Lutheran Hospital for treatment under Police guard.

Meanwhile, Police at Okatope in the Oshikoto Region have also arrested a young woman on a murder charge for allegedly dumping her newborn baby into a toilet.

The woman, 25 years old, is from Oshamba village.

She was also reported to the Police by her parents after she allegedly told them that she had given birth to a stillborn baby in a mahangu field.

Her parents found a dead baby in a toilet, however.

The woman appeared in the Ondangwa Magistrate's Court last week.