Members of BGB seized 1 lakh 80 thousand Yaba tablets by carrying out a raid on the bank of Naf River in Sadar Union of Cox's Bazar border upazila Teknaf on Tuesday.
The members of Nazirpara BOP of Teknaf Sadar Union, on a secret information about the arrival of drug shipment from Myanmar, BGB conducted this drive on the bank of Naf River in Gafur Project area. However, the traffickers could not arrest anyone as they fled into the thick Keora plantations on the side of the Naf river. BGB 2 battalion Captain in Teknaf Lt Colonel Md Mohiuddin Ahmed said on Tuesday afternoon that on Tuesday morning there was secret information about the smuggling of drugs from Myanmar to Bangladesh.
At night, members of Nazirpara BOP of Sadar Union took a strategic position along the fence of Keora Bagan in Gafur's Shrimp Project area. BGB members saw four persons crossing the zero line of the border and coming into Bangladesh in the early morning in a wooden boat.
At that time, when the patrol challenged the boat, they jumped from the boat in the dark and ran away to Myanmar through the dense Keora gardens on the side of the Naf River.
The patrol team searched and seized 1 lakh 80 thousand Yabas kept in 4 plastic bags in a novel way hidden under the deck of the boat.
