UNB, Cox’s Bazar :
Members of Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) in two separate drives recovered 28,900 pieces of Yaba tablet and arrested a woman in Teknaf upazila on Thursday.
Acting on secret information that a huge consignment of smuggled amphetamine Yaba tablets was entering the country from India, a team of BGB conducted a drive at Moulvir Para point in the Naf River and seized 24,000 pieces of the tablet from a boat around 8.00pm, said Commanding Officer of BGB 42 battalion Lieutenant Colonel Abujar Al Jahid.
However, the smugglers managed to flee sensing presence of the border guards.
Besides, a team of police led by Mohamamd Moktar Hossain, officer-in-charge of Teknaf Model Police Station, conducted a raid at the house of Jafar Alam and recovered 4,900 pieces of Yaba tablet from the house around 4:30 pm.
Police also arrested Rashida Begum, 40, wife of Jafar Alam from the house and seized two motorcycles from there.
The market price of the seized Yaba tablets is Tk90 lakh.
