Yaba worth Tk 15m recovered in Cox’s Bazar

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BGB members on Tuesday recovered 50,000 pieces of Burmese yaba worth Tk 15 million from Cox’s Bazar’s Ukhia upazila, UNB reports.

Tipped off drugs being smuggled from Myanmar, members of Ghumdhum BOP under BGB’s Cox’s Bazar Battalion took up strategic position at the 5th Palangkhali UP costoms intersection turn of Ukhia.

At around 7:00pm, yaba smugglers realising the presence of the BGB patrol and anticipating the possibility of arrests, started firing at the patrol team. Miscreants dropped the bags and fled to Myanmar through the dense jungle as the law enforcers started retaliating, said a BGB media release.

Later from those bags 50,000 pieces of Burmese yaba worth Tk 15 million was recovered.

Appropriate legal action is being taken in this regard, said the release.