Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) in a drive arrested three Rohingya youths with 34,000 pieces of Yaba tablets from Rejupara area under Naikhongchhari upazila of Bandarban district on Sunday night.
The arrested are Md. Mahmudul Hasan, 23, Md. Hakim, 18, and Md. Shafi Alam, 30, of Block-D area under FDMN Camp-01 in Ukhiya upazila of Cox's Bazar district. On a tip-off, a team of the BGB-34 conducted a drive in the area and arrested them with the contraband yaba tablets, according to a press release of the BGB-34 Battalion.
Commander of BGB-34 Battalion Lieutenant Colonel SM Khairul Alam (PSC) said BGB is working relentlessly to protect the future generation of the country from the scourge of drugs.
A case was filed with the concerned police station in this connection, he added.