Timbers seized, 4 held

Forest department officials and members of Bangladesh Coastguard seized 1500cft Sundari timbers and arrested four smugglers from a trawler in the Meghna River near Chandpur town on Friday. The arrestees are Jahangir, 23, Idris Ali, 22, Yusuf Ali, 27, and Aslam, 19. Acting on a tip-off, a joint team of district forest officials and the coastguards raided the engine-propelled boat and seized the timbers worth Tk 10 lakh and arrested the smugglers.