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30 robbers arrested with huge firearms from Bay
Special Correspondent
Crime
2024-02-12, 9:06pm
30 pirates arrested with huge firearms from Bay
Chattogram, Feb 12 - Members of Rapid Action Battalion (Rab) arrested 30 pirates along with huge firearms and ammunition while they were trying to commit mass robbery in fishing boats in the Bay of Bengal early Monday.
The identities of the arrestees could not be known immediately.
Tipped off, a team of Rab-7 conducted a drive in the Bay of Bengal (Chattogram-Cox’s Bazar coastal areas) and arrested 30 pirates along with firearms and ammunition while committing mass robbery in the Bay of Bengal using two trawlers early Monday morning, said Commanding officer of Rab-7, Lieutenant Colonel Mahbub Alam.
The pirates were taken to the Patenga No 15 ghat.-UNB