Dhaka: Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP) during anti-narcotics drives on Saturday arrested 27 people from city’s Bihari camp in Pallabi area for taking and selling illegal drugs.

A Special team of the DMP, including Pallabi Police Station, Detective Branch, Special Armed Police and Dog squad conducted the drives at Kalshi and Bihari camps of Mirpur-11 and Mirpur-10 at around 10 am and continued until 12:00 pm, said Officer-in-Charge of Pallabi police station Dadan Fakir.

During the drives, the police arrested 27 people for taking and selling illegal drugs and recovered 2,150 pieces of Yaba pills, 674 grams heroin, six kg hemps, and 60 lite local wines from their possessions, the OC added.