200,000 yaba seized

A huge consignment of Yaba tablets has been seized from a trawler on the Karnaphuli River in the wee hours of Sunday.

Chittagong Bureaubdnews24.com
Published : 24 August 2014, 06:11 AM
Updated : 24 August 2014, 02:27 PM

Coast Guard's Lt Commander Durul Huda told bdnews24.com that the trawler was detained from the estuary of the river just past midnight Sunday.

"The raid was conducted on a tip-off. But the crew of the boat jumped into the river and fled," he said.

The Yaba tablets were found in an empty oil-container on the boat, said Huda.

He said 200,000 tablets were found in 20 packets.