{"id":11253,"date":"2019-10-29T12:19:35","date_gmt":"2019-10-29T07:19:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/?p=11253"},"modified":"2019-10-29T12:19:35","modified_gmt":"2019-10-29T07:19:35","slug":"rohingya-man-arrested-in-bangladesh-after-5million-drug-haul","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/archives\/11253","title":{"rendered":"Rohingya Man Arrested in Bangladesh After $5million Drug Haul"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"speakable\">Police in\u00a0 Bangladesh \u00a0have arrested a\u00a0 Rohingya \u00a0man with $5million of methamphetamine pills in their biggest narcotics haul this year, according to officials.<\/p>\n<p class=\"speakable\">Special police staged a raid on a beach in the Cox&#8217;s Bazar district on the border with Myanmar\u00a0 on Sunday following a tip that a trawler carrying the drugs would land there, a spokesman said on Monday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"speakable\">The spokesman said 800,000 pills were found in sacks in the trawler and one Rohingya suspect was detained while several others escaped.<\/p>\n<p>About 740,000 Rohingya arrived in Bangladesh after a Myanmar military crackdown in August 2017 and drug dealing has become a growing problem in the refugee camps in Cox&#8217;s Bazar where they live.<\/p>\n<p>The seizure was the biggest made this year of the methamphetamine pills, known as yaba, which have become a popular drug among young people in the nation of 168 million.<\/p>\n<p>Since a crackdown was launched last year, more than 500 suspected drug traffickers &#8211; including at least 25 Rohingya &#8211; have been shot dead by police and security forces.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Police in\u00a0 Bangladesh \u00a0have arrested a\u00a0 Rohingya \u00a0man with $5million of methamphetamine pills in their biggest narcotics haul this year, according to officials. Special police staged a raid on a beach in the Cox&#8217;s Bazar district on the border with Myanmar\u00a0 on Sunday following a tip that a trawler carrying the drugs would land there, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":11255,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36,31],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11253","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bangladesh","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11253","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11253"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11253\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11256,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11253\/revisions\/11256"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11255"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11253"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11253"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11253"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}