Out of the 101 yaba peddlers sentenced to one and a half years in jail and awarded a penalty of Tk 20,000 by a Cox’s Bazar court today in a drug case, eight are from the family of Abdur Rahman Bodi, a former Awami League lawmaker.

A Cox’s Bazar court has framed charges against 97 alleged yaba peddlers in a case filed under the narcotics control act.

Rapid Action Battalion (Rab) claims to have detained two siblings over their alleged involvement in contraband yaba dealing in Gazipur.

An alleged drug dealer was killed in a “gunfight” between a drug gang and law enforcers near Habirchara union of Teknaf upazila in the early hours yesterday.

Six people, including two alleged Rohingya drug traders, were killed in “shootouts” with law enforcers in Dhaka and two other districts early yesterday.

The Rapid Action Battalion yesterday arrested 91 people, including six women, in an anti-narcotics drive in Mohammadpur's Geneva Camp, considered a major drug hub in the capital.

Two alleged drug peddlers and a murder case accused were killed in “gunfights” with police in Cox's Bazar early yesterday.

Two alleged drug peddlers and three suspected robbers were killed in three separate “gunfights” with members of Border Guard Bangladesh and police in Cox's Bazar and Munshiganj yesterday.

Golam Faruk and his wife Afroza Akhter came empty-handed to Dhaka in 2009. Born to an insolvent family in Chapainawabganj, he was hoping a change of scene would result in a change of fortunes.

An alleged drug trader was killed in a “gunfight” between two groups of drug peddlers at Mangalgati village in Jashore Sadar upazila yesterday.

Four suspected criminals, including an outlawed party leader, were killed in “gunfights” with law enforcers in Comilla, Sirajganj and Rajbari early yesterday, while an alleged drug peddler died during a “gun battle” between two groups of drug peddlers in Tangail.

Three alleged drug dealers and one “criminal” were killed in separate incidents of “shootouts” with Rab and police in Chittagong and Tangail yesterday.

Two alleged drug peddlers and two suspected robbers were killed in separate incidents of “shootouts” in three districts early yesterday.

Two suspected drug traders and four alleged robbers were killed in separate incidents of “shootouts” in five districts early yesterday.

Four more suspected drug peddlers were killed in reported “gunfights” in four districts early yesterday.

Three more suspected drug peddlers were killed in “gunfights” with law enforcers in Chittagong and Comilla yesterday.

Two suspected drug peddlers were killed in “gunfights” with police in Kushtia and Mymensingh early yesterday.

Bangladesh has handed over a list of drug dealers to Myanmar who fled to the neighbouring country amid the ongoing nationwide anti-narcotics drive.

Five alleged drug traders were killed in “gunfights” between law enforcers and criminals in four districts early yesterday.

The body of a 25-year-old was found with bullet wounds in Shariatpur Sadar upazila yesterday morning, two days after plainclothes men identifying as detectives allegedly picked him up from his house.