Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) and the Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) conducted a joint operation in in Cox’s Bazar’s Teknaf upazila on Monday.
During the drive, law enforcers rescued 84 trafficking victims, detained three suspects, and seized several firearms.
Teknaf Battalion (2 BGB) Commander Lieutenant Colonel Ashikur Rahman and RAB-15 Commander Lieutenant Colonel Kamrul Hasan confirmed the news.
Sources involved in the operation said that the traffickers were holding the victims in hill shelters and tempting them to take them abroad.
On September 20, after arresting and rescuing one trafficker and four victims, a wide-ranging combing operation was conducted from Baharchhara to Rajachhara hill based area on information.
During the operation, the smugglers opened fire on the joint forces and tried to throw some of the victims off the hills. However, without putting the lives of innocent people at risk, the BGB-RAB tactically climbed to the top of the hills and carried out an adventurous operation.
In a sting operation that lasted about 12 hours, two smugglers were arrested and a single-shooter gun, a single-barrel gun, a foreign pistol along with ammunition, were recovered.
