Myanmar citizen held with 1 lakh Yaba tablets

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UNB, Cox’s Bazar :
Members of Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) in separate drives seized 1 lakh Yaba tablets worth Tk 3 crore and arrested a Myanmar national in Teknaf upazila on Tuesday.
Tipped off, a BGB team conducted a drive in Kayukkhali canal of the Naf River around 8:30 am and seized 90,000 Yaba pills from a boat, said Lieutenant Colonel Abu Zar Al-Zahid, commanding officer of BGB Battalion-42 in Teknaf.
However, no one was
arrested as the smugglers managed to flee.
In a separate drive, another team of BGB conducted a drive in Chowdhurypara area and arrested a Myanmar citizen along with 10,000 contraband tablets around 9 am. The arrestee was identified as Shah Alam, 35.
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