Buddha statues recovered

Rapid Action Battalion (Rab) recovered four precious statues of Buddha from Cox's Bazar district on Sunday. The statues reportedly worth Tk 50 lakh were brought to Rab-7 of Chittagong headquarters at Patenga and showed to the media in the port city yesterday. Sources said, on information that a gang of smugglers gathered at Kalurjana Rangmahal of Latpahar Reserved Forest under Chakaria upazila a team of the elite force from its temporary camp in Cox's Bazar district raided the spot on Sunday evening. Sensing presence of Rab the smugglers fled the scene leaving the four statues at different places of the area.