Bangladesh Coast Guard members have recovered 11,95,600 pieces of yaba and firearms near St. Matin’s island in Cox’s Bazar.
Along with the drugs, an automatic sub machine gun, two magazines with 30 rounds of ammunition were recovered from a fishing boat 2 nautical miles in Bay of Bengal from St. Martin’s Chheradwip in Teknaf on Tuesday noon.
Lieutenant Commander Naeem Ul Haque, in-charge of Teknaf Coast Guard said the coast guard members were in a special raid near the Chheradwip on a tip-off. At around 2 pm they signaled a fishing boat in that area to stop. It didn’t stop, rather the smugglers at the boat fired at the coast guards. When the coast guards fired back the smugglers jumped off the boat to the Myanmar sealine.
Coast guards later searched the boat and recovered the drugs and firearms which were handed over to Teknaf Model Police Station, he said.
Source: United News of Bangladesh