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Smuggled Burmese Longyi Seized at Cox’s Bazar

Cox’s Bazar, May 10: Four hundred and forty eight (448) Burmese longies smuggled from Burma to Bangladesh were seized in southern Chittagong District, Cox’s Bazar, according to our source.

On May 4, 2004, at about 2:00 pm a group of BDR (Bangladesh Rifles), while they were patrolling around the town, they met a taxi at Kalatoli Station in Cox’s Bazar town and checked it with suspect and found 448 Burmese longies in two bags, he further added.

This taxi came from Himsori, a place from southern side of Cox’s Bazar and the taxi driver named Shudor Shon (Barowa) was also arrested by BDR. The BDR handed over all seized goods and the driver to the police of Cox’s Bazar.

Regarding this, a case was filed at Cox’s Bazar police station against the driver.

“Though the administrators on both sides of the border are planning to speed up legal import and export, the local merchants are found to go for the illegal trade” said a custom in Cox’s Bazar.

From Burma side, table salt, tested salt (Ajino Moto), current nets, cigarettes and cigarette-papers, carbon papers, fresh water fish, slippers, spices and Posta Dana (a kind of white small seeds), pulses, clothes, drug, beer have been smuggled into Bangladesh.

From Bangladesh side, kerosene, edible oil, fertilizer, medicine, petrol, some kinds of foodstuff and construction material have also been smuggled into Burma.

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