Bangladesh Coast Guard (east zone) seized 19,810 pieces of yaba tablets from the Bay of Bengal near Taknaf upazila of Cox's Bazar Wednesday night.
Acting on a tip-off, a patrol team of coast guard chased a fishing boat from Myanmar as it reached in Naya Khaler Mukh area near Shah Parir Dwip around 11:00 pm, reports our Chittagong correspondent quoting Lt Abdullah Al Mamun, coast guard in-charge of Shah Parir Dwip camp who also led the team.
Sensing their presence, around 15 to 20 people abroad the boat fled the scene leaving a polythene bag full of the yaba tablets in the Bay, Lt Mamun said.
Coast guard personnel recovered the bag from the sea and found yaba tablets worth about Tk 1 crore from it, the coast guard official said.
The seized tablets were handed over to Teknaf Police Station and a case was filed in this connection.
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