Staff Reporter :
Detective Branch (DB) of Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP) in a drive picked up two traffickers and rescued 17 trafficking victims from Ashkona area in the capital early Monday.
The traffickers were planning to traffic the victims to abroad.
Nazmul Alam, Deputy Commissioner of DMP, said at a press conference in the media center of the DMP.
Acting on a tip-off, a team of DB raided the area at night and picked up them, the police official said.
The law enforcers also rescued the job seekers from a house in the area, the DC said.
A case had been filed against the traffickers, he said.
Foreign Ministry spotted 1,018 Bangladeshis among the rescued migrants who were trafficked from Bangladesh and Myanmar coasts.
Earlier, a total of 26 bodies believed to be migrants from Myanmar and Bangladesh were exhumed from a mass grave near a suspected human trafficking camp on a hillside deep in a southern Thai jungle in May.
Detective Branch (DB) of Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP) in a drive picked up two traffickers and rescued 17 trafficking victims from Ashkona area in the capital early Monday.
The traffickers were planning to traffic the victims to abroad.
Nazmul Alam, Deputy Commissioner of DMP, said at a press conference in the media center of the DMP.
Acting on a tip-off, a team of DB raided the area at night and picked up them, the police official said.
The law enforcers also rescued the job seekers from a house in the area, the DC said.
A case had been filed against the traffickers, he said.
Foreign Ministry spotted 1,018 Bangladeshis among the rescued migrants who were trafficked from Bangladesh and Myanmar coasts.
Earlier, a total of 26 bodies believed to be migrants from Myanmar and Bangladesh were exhumed from a mass grave near a suspected human trafficking camp on a hillside deep in a southern Thai jungle in May.
