A team of RAB-15 recovered 34,000 yaba pills from a passenger bus during an operation in Chakaria, Cox’s Bazar. The raid took place at the Khutakhali bus station area on the Cox’s Bazar–Chattogram highway late Sunday night. Two individuals, including the bus driver and another suspected trafficker, were detained during the operation. The seized drugs were found hidden under the seats of an Imperial Paribahan bus traveling from Cox’s Bazar to Dhaka.

RAB Assistant Director and Assistant Superintendent of Police A M Faruk confirmed the seizure at a briefing on Monday afternoon. The detainees were identified as Abul Kalam Azad from Patuakhali’s Kalapara upazila and Robiul Hossain from Ukhiya in Cox’s Bazar. Following the recovery, RAB filed a case under the Narcotics Control Act and handed the suspects over to Chakaria police.

According to Chakaria Police Station Officer-in-Charge Monir Hossain, the two accused were later produced before the Senior Judicial Magistrate Court in Chakaria.