Home Minister Asaduzzaman Khan Kamal said the government is working to trace the drug peddlers who opened fire on law enforcers, leaving an intelligence official dead near Tumbru border in Bandarban's Naikkhangchhari upazila yesterday.

A Dhaka court sends 92 people to jail in connection with 16 cases filed with Mohammadpur Police Station under the Narcotics Control Act on March 22 and 23.

Nine persons are held with cannabis from different areas in Dhaka during a drive conducted by the Department of Narcotics Control.

Rapid Action Battalion (Rab) members detains over 100 people during an anti-narcotics drive at Geneva camp in Dhaka’s Mohammadpur area.

Two more alleged drug peddlers are killed in a reported gunfight with police in Satkhira Sadar upazila amid the ongoing countrywide anti-narcotics drive.

Police recovered two bullet-hit bodies from Monirampur upazila in the district early yesterday.

Police recovered two bullet-hit bodies from Monirampur upazila in the district early yesterday.

Two alleged drug traders were killed in what police claimed was a gunfight in Kalibari area in the town early yesterday amid the countrywide ongoing anti-narcotics drive.

​Two more suspected drug traders are killed in a reported 'gunfight' with detectives in Kalibari Lane area in Mymensingh town.

Another suspected drug trader was killed in what is said to be a gunfight with detectives in Raipur Railway station area in Sirajganj town early today.

Teknaf upazila Awami League leaders would be called to Dhaka to discuss the killing of Akramul Haque with the prime minister after she returns from Canada, claimed a leader of the upazila AL.

Condemning the alleged extrajudicial killings of suspected drug offenders in Bangladesh, UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, Zeid Ra'ad Al Hussein, yesterday called for an immediate halt to these serious human rights violations and bringing the perpetrators to justice.

The European Union missions in Dhaka have called for a complete investigation into all the deaths related to the ongoing drive against narcotics.

Road Transport and Bridges Minister Obaidul Quader says the government would not bow down to any external pressure over the ongoing anti-narcotics drive.

Ten eminent citizens yesterday called for an end to extrajudicial killings and urged the government to ensure judicial investigation into all the incidents of “shootouts”.

Three more suspected drug peddlers have been killed in separate reported shootouts with law enforcers in Gazipur and Rajshahi.

So-called shootouts in the ongoing anti-narcotics drive keep claiming lives with the number of deaths standing at 108 until last night.

At least 31 people are detained in an anti-narcotics drive in Dhaka’s Uttara area.

A total of 75 people were arrested by police in separate anti-narcotics drives at Jatrabari and Mirpur area yesterday, increasing the tally of arrests in the drive to around 400 over the last three days.

Diplomats, stationed in Dhaka, yesterday expressed deep concern over the "extrajudicial killings" in the ongoing nationwide anti-narcotics drive.