Coast Guard seizes 5 lakh yaba pills from Bay of Bengal, 7 held
Bangladesh Coast Guard today arrested seven people and seized five lakh yaba pills in a drive at the Bay of Bengal, about 30 nautical miles from Teknaf.
Acting on a tip-off, a Coast Guard conducted the drive around 1:30am and recovered the pills from a fishing boat and arrested seven people, said Lt Hayat Ibna Siddique, media officer of Bangladesh Coast Guard.
It is suspected that the drug was being smuggled on the sea route from Myanmar to Bangladesh.
The arrestees are: Mohorrom Ali (44), Abdul Shukkur (26), Amanullah (28), Nurul Alam (38), Abdul Monnaf (35), Jahid Hossain (33) and Abdul Pedan (22).
All the arrestees hail from Teknaf and were handed over to Teknaf Police Station.
Earlier on Saturday, the Coast Guard seized 1.40 lakh yaba pills from a boat in Jhaubon area near Rejukhal estuary in Ramu upazila of Cox's Bazar district.
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