UK Minister of State for Asia and the Pacific, Mark Field urges Bangladesh law enforcers "to uphold due legal process and safeguards over use of force" in the ongoing countrywide drives against narcotics.

A suspected drug peddler is killed in a reported gunfight with police in Bhairab Municipality area of Kishoreganj early today.

Human Rights Watch has urged the Bangladesh government to launch an independent investigation into allegations of extrajudicial killings in the ongoing “war on drugs.”

Police detain 10 suspected drug dealers and users from Dhaka’s Mohammadpur area.

Police detains four people including an imam of a mosque from Jatrabari area of Dhaka for their alleged involvement in drug trading.

Two alleged drug dealers were killed in what law enforcers claimed “gunfights” in Tangail and Rangpur early yesterday, taking the death toll to 131 during the anti-narcotics drive in last 20 days.

Transparency International Bangladesh (TIB) expresses concern over the death of more than a hundred people in "gunfights" in the ongoing nationwide anti-narcotics drives.