BGB recovers 994,000 yaba tablets worth about Tk 30 crore in three operations on the Teknaf and Ukhia border, two held
Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) has recovered 994,000 yaba tablets worth about Tk 30 crore in three separate operations on the Teknaf and Ukhia border in Cox's Bazar. Two people were detained in the operations.
Lt Col Md Zahirul Islam, commanding officer of 64 BGB, confirmed the matter on Thursday (November 12) noon. He said the Ukhia Battalion (64 BGB) carried out the operations on Wednesday (November 11) night in Hnila and Whykong in Teknaf and in Palongkhali in Ukhia.
The largest consignment was seized in Hnila. At about 8:30pm on Wednesday, the BGB spotted a boat coming from Myanmar in the Jelepara area of Hnila. Several traffickers lowered sacks filled with yaba into the water from the boat and took position in a keora forest.
When a BGB patrol team advanced by speedboat, the traffickers opened fire. The BGB also fired back. At one stage the traffickers left the sacks of yaba in the water and fled to Myanmar by boat. The BGB later recovered 890,000 yaba tablets in 10 sacks from the spot.
The same night, another operation was carried out in the Anjumanpara area under Palongkhali BOP in Ukhia. The BGB detained a young man named Md Ramzan Ali (18) there with 100,000 yaba tablets.
The third operation was at the Whykong checkpoint in Teknaf. At about 9pm, a search there led to the detention of another young man, Md Hosain (20), with 4,000 yaba tablets and a motorcycle.
Commanding officer Lt Col Md Zahirul Islam said the market value of the recovered drugs was about Tk 30 crore.
He said the BGB's position against drugs was zero tolerance. Operations were continuing, using professionalism, skill and technological capability, to stop drug smuggling across the border, he added.
