Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh: Over 2,000 Yaba tablets worth one million Taka were seized by Bangladesh Rifles (BDR) on the Burma-Bangladesh border yesterday morning from a bus plying to Cox’s Bazaar from Teknaf,a border town in Bangladesh, said our correspondent from Palongkhali.

BDR personnel at Palongkhali BOP of BDR Battalion No.17 of Cox’s Bazar under the Ukhiya upazila yesterday morning searched a Cox’s Bazar bound bus from Teknaf and fund 2,014 banned Yaba tablets worth Taka one million, according to BDR officials.

No one was arrested as the tablets were found abandoned in a corner of the bus. The seized tablets were handed over to Cox’s Bazar Customs authorities.

According to the Operations Commander Major Tamin of BDR Battalion No.17, yesterday a BDR patrol party from Palongkhali camp of Ukhiya upazila searched a bus which was going to Cox’s Bazaar from Teknaf and seized over 2,000 Yaba tablets in a big packet.

Though the BDR, police and other agencies have been trying to stop smuggling of heroin and Yaba tablets from Burma to Bangladesh, it has been in vain, said a local trader from Teknaf on condition of anonymity.

In Bangladesh many students are addicted to Yaba tablets and as a result the Bangladesh government has taken the initiative to punish both sellers and users. The tablets are easy to carry because of its small size, said a medicine trader.