Police have detained man in possession of 800 pieces of contraband Yaba at Dhaka airport.
Twenty-five-year-old Farid Ahmed was arrested outside the Hazrat Shajalal International Airport’s domestic terminal at around 2pm, said Additional SP Airport Armed Police Battalion (APBn) Abdur Rahman.
Ahmed landed at the airport by US-Bangla flight from Cox’ Bazar, he added.
Tipped-off, security personal nabbed him and recovered the Yaba from his stomach following an X-ray scanning, said Rahman, who is the APBn intelligence chief.
A case will be file with the Airport police under the Narcotics Control Act.