Contraband drugs destroyed

Members of Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) destroyed contraband drugs worth Tk three crore at BGB-22 Battalion headquarters in Jhujhumpur on the outskirts of the district town on Sunday morning. They damaged 40,000 bottles of phensidyl, 3,000 bottles of liquor and 19 kilogram of hemp in presence of Lt Col Ali Akbar, commander of the battalion, operation officer Major Galib, Executive Magistrate Sharif Nazrul Islam and Narcotics Control Department official Billal Hossain. The BGB men recovered the drugs in separate drives conducted at various places including frontier areas across the district from April to December last year.