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The Special Response Battalion (SRB) has arrested two men in Chattogram city in connection with the killing of two men in Cox’s Bazar’s Teknaf, reportedly over a dispute involving a yaba consignment.
The arrestees are Mizanur Rahman, 27, and Abdul Monaf, 27, who are accused Nos 2 and 4, respectively, in the murder case. SRB-7 confirmed their arrests in a press release issued on Wednesday (11 November).
They were detained in separate raids in the West Faridapara area under Chandgaon Police Station on Monday afternoon. A joint team of SRB-7 and SRB-15 arrested Mizanur at around 5:25pm, while Abdul Monaf was picked up about 10 minutes later.
On 4 November, police recovered the bodies of Md Moktar Kamal and Md Akbar from two separate hilly areas in Hnila union of Teknaf.
Following the killings, the victims’ families filed a murder case with Teknaf Police Station, naming 11 people and accusing another eight to 10 unidentified individuals.
According to local sources and an account given by a survivor, the killings stemmed from a dispute over 30,000 yaba tablets that went missing from a stolen consignment of one lakh tablets.
Mizanur allegedly handed over four people to an armed drug-trafficking group operating in the Hnila hills on the night of 3 November. The group reportedly took them to the hills and tortured them, leaving Moktar dead. Akbar, who had gone missing, was also later found dead.
Locals rescued two other injured victims. One of them, Ilias, later described the torture and the dispute over the yaba consignment to residents.
Mohammad Ali, acting chairman of Hnila Union Parishad, said he had also learnt that the killings were linked to a dispute over yaba.
According to the SRB, the force launched the operation after receiving information that several suspects in the killings were staying in Chandgaon, Chattogram.
The two arrestees were handed over to Chandgaon police for further legal action, the press release said.