A woman has been arrested for alleged throwing her eight-month-old twin boys in a fast-flowing stream.
Lily Oyela, a mother of six, dumped the children in Auch stream, some 500 meters away from her home on Saturday. This was after she had a quarrel with her husband.
Speaking to URN, Wilfred Nyeko, the Labongo Amida sub-county LC 3 chairperson, said that one of the children was rescued alive when the other one died.
Trouble started on Friday when the suspect was left waiting in vain after her husband whom she gave money to buy some items for independence day celebration spent it on drinking.
When the husband, Kenneth Ochol, returned on Saturday, he was confronted by his wife which forced him to leave the house.
As a way to relieve herself, the suspect took the decision to drown the twins since her husband doesn’t want to be responsible for their care.
The suspect was immediately arrested while her husband is on the run. The baby which survived the drowning is currently receiving treatment at Kitgum General hospital.
