Two held with crystal meth, yaba in Cox’s Bazar

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Border Guard Bangladesh has claimed to have arrested two men from Cox’s Bazar’s Teknaf on charges of smuggling yaba pills and crystal meth from Myanmar to Bangladesh.

BGB Battalion-2 conducted a drive on the banks of the Naf River near Hnila BOP of the upazila on Friday, July 29, 2022.

During the drive, they detained Riaz Uddin, 20, and Saddam Hossain, 19 and recovered around 1.063 kg of crystal meth and 20,000 yaba pills, a boat, and illegal fishing nets from them, BGB Battalion-2 , commanding officer, lieutenant colonel Sheikh Khalid Mohammad Iftekhar.

He added that the detainees were later handed over to Teknaf Model Police Station.