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Rohingya man held with Tk 57m worth Yaba pills in Cox's Bazar

Drugs 2022-02-17, 1:57pm

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Cox’s Bazar, Feb 17 -- The Armed Police Battalion (APBN) Thursday claimed to have detained a Rohingya refugee with Yaba tablets worth Tk 5.7 million in Cox's Bazar.

The accused has been identified as Sadek Hossain, 25, son of Mir Ahmed.

Tipped off, a team of AAP raided the house of Sadek in the Balukhali Rohingya camp in Ukhia in Wednesday and seized 1.69 lakh pieces of the banned narcotics, additional SP of AAP, Kamran Hossain, told UNB.

"Sadek has been detained for questioning.

The market value of the seized Yaba tablets is Tk 5.7 crore," he added. – UNB