US$5 million drug haul as Rohingya detained in Bangladesh

DHAKA: Bangladesh police arrested a Rohingya man with US$5 million of methamphetamine pills in their biggest narcotics haul this year, officials said Monday (Oct 28).

Special police staged a raid on a beach in the Cox's Bazar district on the border with Myanmar on Sunday following a tip that a trawler carrying the drugs would land there, a spokesman said.

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The spokesman said 800,000 pills were found in sacks in the trawler and one Rohingya suspect was detained while several others escaped.

Some 740,000 Rohingya Muslims flooded across the border after a Myanmar military clampdown in August 2017 and drug dealing has become a growing problem in the refugee camps in Cox's Bazar where they live.

The seizure was the biggest made this year of the methamphetamine pills, known as yaba, which have become a popular drug among youRead More – Source