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Bangladeshi police seize 70,000 yaba tablets, arrest 10 suspects

Xinhua, March 1, 2016 Adjust font size:

The Detective Branch of Bangladesh Police have seized 70,000 yaba tablets in a drive in Dhaka, an official said Tuesday.

Dhaka Metropolitan Police's (DMP) spokesperson Maruf Hossain Sardar told journalists that "10 people were also arrested with suspected links to the seizure of 70,000 yaba pills in Dhaka on Monday night."

Acting on a tip-off, he said the law enforcers raided a Dhaka area on Monday night and seized the tablets, often used for sexual stimulation in Bangladesh and continue to be increasingly popular among drug users, in spite of the efforts of law enforcement agencies to contain the dangers of the narcotics trade.

Bangladeshi anti-crime elite force Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) on Jan. 17 night seized 2.8 million yaba tablets in special drives in Dhaka and seaport city Chittagong, some 242 southeast of the capital city.

Law enforcers had then claimed that this was the biggest ever seizure of contraband yaba tablets in the country in a day. Endit