Bandarban:Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) has seized 2 lakh Yaba tablets and detained two Rohingya men during separate anti-narcotics operations along the Ghumdhum and Baishfari borders in Naikhongchhari upazila.
According to United News of Bangladesh, a special patrol team from Ghumdhum Border Outpost (BOP) conducted a raid around 900 pm on Saturday at Jamal-er Gher, which is 200 yards inside Bangladesh territory from border pillar No. 32. During the operation, BGB personnel apprehended two Rohingya men and confiscated 10,000 Yaba tablets.
The detainees have been identified as Md Islam, 25, son of Md Hossain, and Md Mojibullah, 23, son of Md Jalil, both from Rohingya Camp-8 in Ukhiya upazila of Cox's Bazar.
In a separate operation around 400 am on Sunday, a patrol team from Baishfari BOP discovered an additional 190,000 Yaba pills abandoned at Madhyapara, 100 yards inside Bangladesh from border pillar No. 35.
Lt Col SM Khairul Alam, commanding officer of the 34 BGB, stated that the force is dedicated to securing the borders and curbing cross-border drug trafficking to safeguard the nation's youth.