Staff Reporter:

Detective Branch (DB) of Police on Thursday arrested two drug peddlers along with 15,000 pieces of Yaba tablets from Kuthirchar area in Kamarkhanda upazila of Sirajganj district.

The arrestees are Selim Reza, 35, son of Shahidul Islam of Kuthirchar Modyapara and Amirul Islam, 33, son of Shamsul Islam of the Kuthirchar Purbapara village in the upazila.

Acting on a tip-off, a team of DB police being directed by the Superintendent of Police Md. Faruk Hossain conducted a raid and arrested the duo and recovered the said amount of contraband Yaba pills from their possession.

A case was lodged with the Kamarkhanda police station in this connection.