The detectives of Department of Narcotics Control detained two Rohingya refugees travelling on a bus while carrying 5,000 yaba pills.
The two were found on the bus from Teknaf, after it was searched by narcotics detectives on Mariners Road in Chittagong city on Sunday morning, said DNC Deputy Director Shamim Ahmed, reports bdnews24.com.
They were identified as Salim Ullah, from Whykong Unshipara refugee camp, 42, and Mohammad Shah aka Khokan, 22, from Layda Notun Taal refugee camp in Teknaf.
The Saudia Paribahan bus they were on was searched based on a tip-off, DNC Inspector Tapan Kanti Sharma said.
The men were accused in a case for under the Narcotics Control Act.
The Rohingyas are stateless Muslim minorities of Myanmar who face violent persecution in the Buddhist-majority nation.
The latest army crackdown against the community in Rakhine state has sent over half a million people fleeing across the border to neighbouring Bangladesh.
The new arrivals join another approximately 400,000 Rohingyas, victims of past violence, who were already living in overcrowded Cox’s Bazar refugee camps.
