BGB seizes 1.4 lakh Yaba tablets from Naikhongchari
News Desk
Members of Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) on 16th August night seized 140,000 pieces of yaba pills from Rajuamtoli hilly area in Naikhongchhari upazila of Bandarban after a gunfight with yaba dealers.
A team of BGB-34 battalion took position near Dakhshin Rajuamtoli Mosque in Ghumdhum union around 10pm after being tipped off about a smuggling bid.
As the BGB team approached a gang of yaba dealers, who were coming to Bangladesh from Myanmar through the hilly area, the gang members opened fire.
BGB members opened fire in self defence, triggering a skirmish.
At one stage, the gang members fled the scene leaving a bag wrapped in a lungi.
Later, the BGB members recovered yaba pills worth Tk4.2 crore from the bag.