Uganda, April 14 -- Grief engulfed residents of Kisimbanyiriri Village, in Lwanda Sub County in Rakai District after two siblings drowned in a valley dam on Saturday.

The deceased 9-year-old Daphine Namirembe and 12-year-old Sheila Nantongo were in Primary two and four at Victorious Nursery and Primary School, Lumbugu.

The deceased had allegedly gone to the dam to wash clothes and later take water for domestic use.

Frank Kabugo told Monitor that he was not home by the time of the incident in which his daughters died.

"They always wash their clothes from the dam and I wonder what went wrong this time. I have lost my only children who loved me very much," Kabugo said.

Eyewitnesses said the older child drowned trying to rescue her siste...