Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) has recovered 994,000 yaba pills and detained two drug traders in drives against yaba smuggling in the Hnila and Whykong areas of Teknaf and the Palongkhali border area of Ukhiya in Cox’s Bazar.
The commander of BGB’s Ukhiya Battalion, Lt Col Md Zahirul Islam, gave the details at a press briefing at the battalion’s office on Thursday (12 November).
At the briefing he said that at around 12:30am the previous night a boat was seen crossing the Naf river from Myanmar towards Jelepara in Hnila, Teknaf. A BGB team then lay in ambush in the embankment area. Some seven or eight drug traders unloaded sacks of yaba from the boat into the water, took cover in the nearby keora forest and waited for a chance to cross the embankment. When another BGB patrol moved towards the keora forest by speedboat, the drug traders opened fire on BGB, and BGB returned fire and kept advancing. Under BGB fire, the drug traders left the drugs floating in the water in sacks and fled back to Myanmar by boat. The BGB patrol then recovered 890,000 yaba pills in 10 sacks, large and small, from the spot.
On the same day, at 11:30pm, BGB detained a man named Md Ramjan Ali with 100,000 yaba pills at a place called Anjumanpara under the Palongkhali border outpost in Ukhiya, and at 9pm it detained a man named Md Hossain with 4,000 yaba pills and a motorcycle at the Whykong checkpost in Teknaf.
The Ukhiya Battalion (64 BGB), under the Ramu sector of the Cox’s Bazar region, has had notable success in border protection, drug control and the prevention of smuggling since it was set up.
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