Moroto police are holding 3 suspected traffickers intercepted with 13 South Sudanese children aged between 6 and 7 years.
The suspects were intercepted around 6 pm yesterday evening as they transported the children to an unknown location in a Kenyan registered vehicle number KCJ 884M.
They passed through Kenya and entered Uganda via the porous Turkana border.
On interrogation, one of the suspects claimed that they were transporting the minors to Joy junior school in Ngora district while the other suspect, a Kenyan national, claims that he was hired from Lodwar to bring children to Moroto.
Michael Longole, the Karamoja Region Police Spokesperson, says the suspects were arrested after concerned drivers in Moroto Taxi Park became suspicious when they approached them to hire a vehicle to drop the children in Ngora in Teso.
Police have rescued dozens of children in Karamoja from the hands of traffickers over the last few weeks.
Last week, police intercepted a gateway bus transporting 17 children to Kampala. Both the driver and conductor were arraigned in court and remanded to Moroto Prisons.
