Big haul of smuggled goods in Pirojpur
Our Correspondent, Barisal
Police seized two trucks and one trawler with smuggled Indian goods worth over Tk 55 lakh in Tushkhali under Mathbaria upazila in Pirozpur district yesterday and arrested three persons.The police raid was made when the goods were being loaded to trucks from the trawler early in the morning. Barisal Range DIG of Police Golam Mostafa said he got information that the smuggled goods were brought to Tushkhali. He immediately directed Jhalokhathi Police Superintendent Hemayet Hossain to go for action. The SP rushed to the spot with force, seized the goods and arrested three persons. They are Sabuz of Bagerhat, Harun-or-Rashid of Madaripur and Mojibur Sardar of Tushkhali. Others escaped. The goods include 113 sacks of Indian sarees, 10 cartons of banned medicine, 20 bags of sugar and huge quantities of cosmetics and ballpen. The arrested persons told police that the goods were loaded in their trawler from an Indian trawler in the deep sea in Bay of Bengal Sunday evening. The trawler reached Tushkhali Tuesday evening and loading of the goods in trucks started after midnight. The DIG said an international smugglers' gang is involved in it.
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