Around midnight, Coast Guard personnel spotted a suspicious trawler crossing the river’s zero line into Bangladesh’s waters and signalled it to stop.
The Coast Guard displays 410,000 seized yaba tablets in Teknaf, Cox’s Bazar. Photo: TBS
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The Coast Guard displays 410,000 seized yaba tablets in Teknaf, Cox’s Bazar. Photo: TBS
The Bangladesh Coast Guard has seized 410,000 yaba tablets worth an estimated Tk20.5 crore from the Naf River in Teknaf, Cox’s Bazar, after suspected smugglers fled to Myanmar, leaving the consignment behind.
Lieutenant Commander Arafat Hossain, station commander of the Coast Guard’s Teknaf station, disclosed the information at a press conference held today (15 November).
He said the Coast Guard received information on Saturday night that a large consignment of drugs was being smuggled from Myanmar through the Naf River near the Nazirpara border area in Sabrang Union of Teknaf.
Around midnight, Coast Guard personnel spotted a suspicious trawler crossing the river’s zero line into Bangladesh’s waters and signalled it to stop.
Sensing the presence of Coast Guard personnel, the smugglers threw two to three small sacks into the river before fleeing towards Myanmar with the trawler.
“After searching the surrounding area, we recovered three floating sacks. Upon opening them, we found 410,000 yaba tablets worth an estimated Tk20.5 crore,” Lieutenant Commander Arafat Hossain said.
He added that the process of taking further legal action over the seized drugs was under way.
The Coast Guard said it would continue conducting operations in coastal and riverside areas across the country to curb the spread of drugs.
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