IGP Mohammad Javed Patwary yesterday ordered the police officials to re-intensify the countrywide anti-narcotics drive.

A convicted robber, also an alleged drug peddler, was killed in a “gunfight” with police in Sreenagar upazila early yesterday.

A suspected drug trader is killed in a reported gunfight between two groups of drug peddlers at Mangalgati in Jashore Sadar upazila.

Two alleged criminals -- a drug dealer and a robber -- were killed in “gunfights” with law enforcers in the capital and Madaripur early yesterday.

Members of Narcotics Department in a drive detained two people along with 100 kgs of hemp from Islampur in Bijoynagar upazila of Brahmanbaria.

Members of Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) arrests seven alleged drug peddlers in Rajshahi and three of them were sentenced to different terms of jail each by a mobile court on charge of taking drugs and drug trading.