Uganda, April 13 -- A tense silence fell over the High Court sitting in Ggaba on Monday as a grieving mother broke down while recounting the final moments before her toddler son was killed in the April 2 daycare attack, before fainting shortly after stepping down from the witness stand.

Stella Apollot, 36, a vegetable vendor at Ggaba landing site, told court that she had taken her two-and-a-half-year-old son, Gideon Eteku, to the daycare that morning, unaware it would be the last time she saw him alive.

"I woke up that very morning, prepared him and brought him to the daycare," she testified in Luganda, her voice trembling.

Led in evidence by Chief State Attorney Jonathan Muwaganya, Apollot struggled to hold herself together as she nar...