The police in Uganda’s Lamwo District at the border with South Sudan on Sunday arrested a male South Sudanese national for trying to smuggle 700 rounds of live AKM ammunition concealed in a box of soap to South Sudan. According to the Uganda Police, three suspects were arrested during the intelligence-led operation, which commenced on Sunday at 8:00 p.m. in Madiopei Town Council. Police recovered one metallic ammunition box marked “7.62 × 39 mm FMJ/SC”, containing 700 rounds of live ammunition. Superintendent of Police Magombe Reagan, the Lamwo District Police Commander (DPC), said the operation followed intelligence that a suspicious South Sudanese national had entered Uganda through the Apiriti Border Post. “The suspect was identified as Edward Peter, 24, a South Sudanese national and boda boda rider from Tseretenya Village in Eastern Equatoria State’s Ikotos County.”