The New Nation - Internet Edition

BSS, Dinajpur

Members of Bangladesh Rifles (BDR), in a raid, recovered 1.8 kilograms (1 kg 800 grams) heroin from a compartment of a inter-city train 'Shimanta Express' on Thursday.

The value of the drug is about Taka 1.80 crore.

BDR sources said, a team of border guards found the heroin at a locker of one of the first class compartments of Parbatipur bound train from Khulna after searching it when it reached at Charki Railway Station under Birampur thana.

The experts of Narcotics Control Department of Dinajpur primarily identified the drug as heroin.

The smugglers, the sources said, fled the scene sensing the presence of BDR personnel.

A case was filed with Birampur thana in this connection.