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Vol. 5 Num 935 Mon. January 15, 2007  
   
Metropolitan


Fishing boat with urea seized


Members of Bangladesh Coast Guard seized a fishing boat with 230 sacks of urea fertiliser while being smuggled to Myanmar early yesterday.

On information, a squad of the Coast Guard carried out a drive at Chittagong outer-anchorage at around 3:30am and seized the boat with the fertilisers, fishing net and other belongings worth around Tk 1 lakh, sources said.

However, the smugglers managed to flee jumping from the boat.