The Ohangwena police have appealed to contractors to rehabilitate sandpits created during extraction of sand for construction after three children drowned in such pits in the region this week. Two of the children were sisters. Warrant Officer Kaume Iitumba of the Namibian Police Force told Nampa on Wednesday an 11-year-old girl drowned while fetching water from a sandpit left behind by contractors at Omufitu waNakashole on Monday. “She went deep into the well and she drowned,” said Iitumba. The next day, sisters Julia and Elizabeth Naluwe, aged 13 and 15, drowned at the Onamwilwa village. Iitumba said the sisters had gone swimming when the incident occurred. The identity of the girl who drowned at Omufitu waNakashole was not immediately known.