57 illegal Malaysia goers arrested in Cox\\\'s Bazar
Sunday, 26 January 2014
Members of Bangladesh Coast Guard arrested 57 people from the Naf River in Teknaf upazila on Friday night while a gang was trafficking them out to Malaysia by a boat. Of the arrested, 17 were from Narsingdi, 13 from Narayanganj, seven from Jessore while the rest 20 from elsewhere in the country. Sources at the Coast Guard headquarters said that acting on a tip-off, a team of the force from its east zone station, Teknaf, conducted a drive in Kachubania Beribadh area of the river around 7:20pm and arrested the 57 just at the moment they were getting on a boat to go to Malaysia. — UNB