8 held with 5 lakh Yaba pills in Cox’s Bazar

Eight drug peddlers were arrested by RAB-7 with five lakh Yaba tablets worth about TK 20 crore from a fishing trawler in Cox's Bazar deep sea on Friday.
Eight drug peddlers were arrested by RAB-7 with five lakh Yaba tablets worth about TK 20 crore from a fishing trawler in Cox's Bazar deep sea on Friday.
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UNB, Dhaka :
Members of the Rapid Action Battalion (RAB-7) arrested eight people with 5 lakh Yaba pills worth Tk 20 crore from the Bay of Bengal near Cox’s Bazar coast on Friday morning. Tipped-off that a gang of smugglers are entering into Bangladesh territory from Myanmar with a large consignment of Yaba tablets, a team of Rab-7 intercepted a fishing trawler on its way to Cox’s Bazar from neighbouring Myanmar around
6:45 am, RAB said at a press release. The elite
force, later, recovered 5 lakh Yaba pills worth Tk 20 crore after searching the trawler and arrested the eight people on board. The arrestees, during primary interrogation, said that they were heading towards Cox’s Bazar along with the consignment of huge contrabands from Myanmar.
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