Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) on Sunday said they seized various types of smuggled goods, arms and ammunition worth Tk 184.36 crore in June through drives in the country's border areas and other places.

The seized items include gold weighing 11.2 kg, silver weighing 14.2 kg, 1,70,599 cosmetic items, 7,168 imitation jewellery, 22,320 sarees, 2,658 three pieces/lehengas/sheets/blankets, 1,793 readymade garments, 2,526 cubic feet of timber, 8,529 cubic feet of timber, 2 touchstone idols, 60 kg turtle bones, 725 kg gamaxin powder, 6 trucks, 14 pickups, 2 buses, 3 private cars/microbuses, 18 CNG/easy bikes and 86 motorcycles, according to BGB.

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The recovered arms include one pistol, two magazines, one mortar shell, 16 rounds of bullets and 10 kg of petrol bomb-making powder.

A large quantity of narcotics was also seized by the BGB last month. The seized drugs include 14,61,016 Yaba pills, 7.390 kg crystal meth (ice), 26.03 kg of heroin, 15,374 bottles of Phensedyl, 16,793 bottles of foreign liquor, 3,539 cans of beer, 917 intoxicating injections/tablets, 2,546 Enegra/Senegra tablets, 2,102 bottles of Eskuf syrup, 1,510 bottles of Mkdil/Kofidil, 10,34,889 pieces of various types of medicines and 1,29,417 other tablets.

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Meanwhile, legal action has been taken against 183 smugglers for their involvement in various types of drug trafficking and other smuggling, including yaba and against 85 Bangladeshi nationals, 5 Indian nationals and 37 Myanmar nationals for illegally crossing the border.

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