Man held with 35,000 yaba pills

Police arrested a man with 35,000 yaba pills in Chattogram's Lohagara upazila yesterday morning.

The arrestee is Mohammad Jalal, 34, of Cox's Bazar, said police.

On information, a police team intercepted Jalal's car on Chattogram-Cox's Bazar road. The pills were recovered from a hidden compartment behind the fuel tank of the car, said Atiqur Rahman, officer-in-charge of Lohagara Police Station.

"We filed a case in this connection and the arrestee will be taken to remand for quizzing," he added.