Driver flees checkpoint, Chattogram police seize 100,000 yaba pills from car

A cellphone has also been recovered from the car

Chattogram Police have seized 100,000 yaba tablets after a driver abandoned his car and fled upon seeing a police checkpoint.

The incident occurred on Thursday evening on Mariners' Road in the city’s Firingibazar area, with the car later being seized.

Md Nure Al Mahmud, assistant commissioner of the Chattogram Metropolitan Police, told bdnews24.com that a team from Kotwali Police Station was conducting a checkpoint operation on Mariners' Road.

“A silver private car approaching from Firingibazar stopped just before the checkpoint, and the driver fled,” he said.

Upon searching the car, police found a black bag in the back seat. Inside the bag were ten small polythene-wrapped packets, each containing 10,000 pills, totalling 100,000 yaba tablets, Mahmud added.

Police said a mobile phone was also recovered from the car, and investigation is under way to trace the suspect and the drug consignment.