Preliminary police investigations indicate that the attackers hit Nakato with an axe on the head and strangled her grandson to death with a rope. The duo is suspected to have been killed on Friday night because that is when they were last seen.
Edward Ssekyondwa, a neighbor to Nalugo, says they had the children raise alarm but thought it was noise from a neighboring hall where people were playing loud music.
Musa Kiyimba, the father of the deceased, says he was shocked to receive a phone call from a neighbor informing him that his daughter had died after being assaulted with a shoe on the head.
Preliminary police investigations show that Mugaga started defiling the minor before he decided to rent for her a house in Nyendo, a suburb of Masaka town where she was found following her disappearance from her parents home for days.
