Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) on Saturday claimed to have nabbed a Myanmarese national with 80,000 pieces of Yaba worth Tk 2.40 crore in Cox’s Bazar.
The detainee has been identified as Md Kamal Hossain, 22.
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Acting on a tip-off, two BGB patrol teams took strategic positions in the Naf river off the coast of Jaliardwip and intercepted a boat at 1am carrying two drug peddlers.
The teams managed to arrest one of the drug smugglers and recovered the banned narcotics from him, BGB said in a statement.