Six human traffickers held in city

 Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) arrested six people, including the owner of a travel agency, on charges of human trafficking from DIT road of Malibagh in the city on Tuesday, reports UNB.

Sources at the RAB headquarters said, acting on a tip-off, an operational team of RAB-3 conducted a drive at a house of DIT road in the afternoon and arrested Ahmedur Rahman, owner of 'Mahbub Travels and Tours' and its five employees--Rashida Akhtar, Palash Mandal, SM Shahiduzzaman, Md Nobel and Md Bakul.

The elite force raided the house following information that they  have been sending female workers abroad illegally for a long time.