Chittagong, Jul 8 (bdnews24.com) -- Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) have thwarted an attempt to illegally send 48 people to Malaysia from the port city. The battalion's officials early Sunday raided several hotels and rescued them in the city as they were ready to start for Malaysia by boats anytime on Sunday, said RAB-7 official Major Rakibul Amin.
The elite force members also arrested two suspected human traffickers who have alleged links with the syndicate that took money from the men rescued.
Amin said the rescued people gathered in Chittagong city from parts of the country.
He said they conducted raids between 1:30am and 3:30am at different residential hotels in the city's Kadamtoli and Railway Station areas.
The official, who also took part in the operation, told bdnews24.com that the raid was conducted on a tip-off at Kadamtoli's Hotel Diamond that those people were being gathered to be sent to Malaysia 'illegally'.
Two suspected members of the human trafficking syndicate, Shahiduzzaman, 50, and Zahurul Islam, 35, have been arrested from the Hotel Diamond, he said.
"Others have been rescued from the other residential hotels on information given by them," he said.
Amin said these 48 people paid Tk 50,000 to Tk 300,000 each to the suspected traffickers for sending them off to Malaysia. "They were supposed to start for Malaysia by boats from the Patenga beach anytime on Sunday."
The detained suspects are associated with a travel agency in Dhaka, he added.
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Source: bdnews24.com
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