Narinjara News, 5 April2022

Two Myanmar nationals with around 54,000 Yaba pills and over one kg of crystal meth worth  Taka eightcrore have been detained in Cox's Bazar localityby the Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) on Saturday.

The detainees have been identified as Zubaier Ahmed (22 years old, son of Siraj Uddin) and Md Rafique (23, sonof Abdul Goni) from  Maungdaw inMyanmar.

Acting on a tip-off, a BGB-2 team intercepted a boat in Naf river and detained both the drug peddlers,informed Lt Col Sheikh Khalid MohammadIftekhar, commanding officer of Teknaf Battalion-2.

The peddlers tried to escape the security personnel  byjumping into the river, but theywere eventually caught.

"Some 54,000 Yaba pills and 1.069 kg of crystal methworth Tk 8 crore were seized fromtheir possession,” he added.

The Burmese Yaba stimulant and Methamphetamines are oftensmuggled into Bangladesh and thearrests indicated its ongoing illegal activities.