Yaba smuggling

Swallowing yaba for a living

It takes around 4 hours to swallow 54 small packets of yaba for 41-year-old Josna Khatun. Each packet contains 50 pills.

Take stern action to stop drug trade

Law enforcers must go the extra mile to break the network of yaba traders

Rab seizes 13 lakh yaba pills at Bay

Rapid Action Battalion today claimed to have seized 13 lakh pieces of yaba and arrested two Rohingyas from the Bay of Bengal in Cox’s Bazar.

3 Rohingya yaba smugglers killed in gunfight: BGB

Three alleged Rohingya yaba smugglers have been killed in a “gunfight” with Border Guard Bangladesh in Ukhia upazila of Cox’s Bazar.

‘Indian Yaba’ getting in

He is known as a rakhal (cowboy) as he brings in cattle smuggled from across the border. But what the 36-year-old says about his additional source of earning is no less startling. The inhabitant of Shibganj upazila in bordering Chapainawabganj district is a carrier of mad drug.

1 held with 9,910 yaba in Chattogram

Rapid Action Battalion (Rab) claims to have detained an alleged drug peddler with 9,910 pieces of yaba pills from Kotwali area of Chattogram city.

Man held with 1,170 yaba pills inside stomach at Dhaka airport

Law enforcers detain one person with 1,170 yaba pills hidden inside his stomach at the domestic terminal of Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport.

Passenger with yaba in stomach held at Dhaka airport

A passenger along with 4,500 yaba tablets inside his stomach is detained at the domestic terminal of Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport in Dhaka.

Five lakh yaba pills seized in Patuakhali

Bangladesh Coast Guard has seized 500,000 yaba pills and held two men from the mouth of the river Ramnabad on the Bay of Bengal in Patuakhali.

July 23, 2015
July 23, 2015

Yaba worth Tk 3.20cr seized in Ctg, 2 held

Rapid Action Battalion members arrests two people with 80,000 yaba tablets worth around Tk 3.20 crore in Chittagong city.

July 14, 2015
July 14, 2015

Tk 11cr yaba seized in Cox’s Bazar, 5 held

Rapid Action Battalion seizes 2.70 lakh pieces of contraband yaba tablets worth around Tk 11 crore and detains five people in Cox’s Bazar ahead of Eid.

June 23, 2015
June 23, 2015

Law enforcers in Yaba trade

We are shocked that a syndicate of members of the police force were reportedly involved in smuggling Yaba on Cox's Bazar-Dhaka route.

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