DHAKA: Law enforcers have seized nearly 167,000 Yaba pills during raids in Dhaka and from an ambulance at a check post in Cox’s Bazar.
They also nabbed five people during the raids on Monday night.
Police raided parts of Dhaka’s Jatrabarhi early on Monday recovering 117,000 pills, DMP Additional Deputy Commissioner SM Jahangir Alam Sarkar told bdnews24.com.
He, however, declined to name those picked up but said they were are identified drug dealers.
Meanwhile, police and BGB men recovered 50,000 pills from an ambulance they stopped at their joint checkpost in Cox’s Bazar’s Marichcha around 6:30am.
BGB 17 Battalion Commander Lt Col Rabiul Islam said they have detained the driver, Saiful Alam, 32, and Shikha Rani, 40, a nurse. However, he could not say which hospital they worked for.
The details will be made available in a media conference later in the day, the law enforcers said.
