Rohingya man held with Yaba pills in Bandarban

BANDARBAN, Feb 21: Members of Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) arrested a Rohingya man and seized 330,000 Yaba tablets in separate anti-narcotics operations along the Ghumdhum border in Naikhongchhari upazila of Bandarban.

The arrestee was identified as Bashir Ahmed, 50, a Rohingya resident of Balukhali Camp-09 in Ukhia. He is the son of Abu Siddique.

BGB's Cox's Bazar Battalion (34 BGB) conducted the operations in Ghumdhum and Baishfari border areas under Ghumdhum Union.

According to BGB, at around 5:30 am on Saturday, a patrol team from the Ghumdhum BOP carried out a special operation based on intelligence information at Kankra Bridge, about 1.1 kilometres inside Bangladesh from Border Pillar-31.

During the raid, the team arrested Bashir Ahmed with 80,000 Yaba pills.

Earlier, on Thursday night at around 9:40 pm, another patrol team from the Baishfari BOP conducted a separate operation at a bamboo grove area, about 200 yards inside Bangladesh from Border Pillar-36.

The team recovered 250,000 Yaba pills in an abandoned condition. No one was arrested in that operation.
The total seizure from the two operations stood at 330,000 Yaba pills.    �"UNB