The police inUgandahave arrested a man who reportedly acted under the influence of marijuana and killed his two children both boys, Walakira Nyanzi reports.  

Abdullah Jamal, a resident ofTanganyikavillage inDadamuSubCountyin Arua reportedly killed the children and reported himself to police claiming that he did not have food to feed the children.

The Criminal Investigations Department officer of Arua district, Alex Afemia confirmed the development and said that Jamal is now inside police cells.

The slain children have been identified as Enoch Abiliga , 5, and Osman Bayyo aged three years. The police have taken the bodies of the dead children to Arua hospital mortuary for postmortem.

 The CID officer has told journalists that Jamal is to be taken to Butabika for medical examination to ascertain his mental status. The mother of the dead children died in 2005.