“Yabba tablets are being smuggled to Bangladesh from Burma by groups from Maungdaw, Teknaf and along the border.”

Nearly Yabba tablets 2,000 were confiscated on a Silver Line bus on May 20 at Dum Dum Meah check-post (near Teknaf) by the Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) Battalion 42. The BGB found the pills after they received a tip, according to an official source. The BGB arrested the bus driver and his helper for drug smuggling. They were handed over to Teknaf police for further investigation.

On May 22, BGB arrested a Bangladeshi man on a bus with 860 Yabba pills at the Dum Dum Meah check-post. The S. Alam bus was travelling from Chittagong to Teknaf, Bangladesh. The man was also handed over to Teknaf police station where a case has been opened.

Bangladeshi authorities trying to stop the flow of drugs into the country have recently tightened security along the Burma-Bangladesh border, according to an official source. The BGB and police have been seizing Yabba pills along the border on a daily basis, local sources told the Kaladanpress.