52,500 Yaba tablets seized
Friday, 31 October 2014
Bangladesh Coast Guard personnel seized 52,500 Yaba tablets from a trawler in the Bay of Bengal under Chittagong district on Thursday. A team of coast guard under Coast Guard East Zone conducted a drive in Kutubdia Channel around 2:30am and seized the engine-driven boat. The law enforcers searched the boat and recovered 52,500 contraband pills worth about Tk 26.2 million. However, no arrest was made as the drug dealers fled jumping into the water of Kutubdia Channel, according to a news agency.