Detectives arrest a bus helper along with 3,800 pieces of contraband yaba pills at Firingi Bazar area of Chattogram city.

Border Guard Bangladesh yesterday recovered nine lakh yaba tablets, worth about Tk 27 crore, in two separate raids in Teknaf upazila.

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

Law enforcers, in separate drives, seized 14.40 lakh yaba pills worth about Tk 71 crore and arrested four from Cox's Bazar and Comilla in connection with the seizures.

Detectives arrested an assistant sub-inspector of Narayanganj Sadar Model Police Station in possession of 50,000 yaba tablets yesterday, police said.

Around 9:30pm last Saturday, a police team stopped a motorbike in the capital's Palashi Residential Area. Alleged yaba dealers they had arrested earlier told them that a bike, registered in Chittagong, would have yaba pills stashed inside.

Bangladesh Coast Guard has detained six Myanmar nationals on a fishing boat in the deep sea at Saint Martin's Island, and recovered three lakh yaba tablets from them in Teknaf upazila of Cox's Bazar yesterday.

A section of smugglers are allegedly operating transport agencies in Chittagong and Cox's Bazar to move drugs under cover, say insiders and investigators.

Police recovered 4,500 yaba tablets from a private car on Chittagong-Cox's Bazar highway in Chittagong's Lohagara upazila yesterday.

Rab seized 7.3 lakh yaba tablets and arrested seven people, including a Myanmarese, in this connection from Cox's Bazar Sadar upazila early yesterday.

The Rapid Action Battalion arrested three drugs smugglers with the biggest ever haul of yaba pills in separate drives in Chittagong and Dhaka since Saturday.

Detectives arrest two people along with 70,000 contraband yaba tablets from Khilgaon area in the capital Dhaka.

Jatiyatabadi Chhatra Dal President Rajib Ahsan is shifted to Dhaka Central Jail from Patuakhali.

Law enforcers claim seizure of 76,000 contraband yaba tablets and detained one person in this connection from Rankin Street in capital’s Wari.

WE are deeply concerned by a recent report of this newspaper revealing that about 50 lakh Yaba pills are trafficked into the country and consumed every day, most of which come from Myanmar.