DOT Desk: The government would engage with the Sri Lankan authorities on containing drug smuggling as the island country alleged that six Bangladesh nationals were found involved in smuggling a huge drug consignment, reports The New Age.
The government on Sunday decided to send a delegation to Colombo to assess whether any Bangladesh citizen was involved in the alleged crime.
The decision to send the delegation came at an inter-ministerial meeting presided over by foreign secretary M Shahidul Haque in the chair.
The Sri Lankan authorities informed the Bangladesh high commission in Colombo recently that they arrested three Bangladeshis with about 300 kgs of heroin and five kgs of cocaine in their possession.
Officials of the Department of Narcotics Control already started raid in different places of the country in connection with the allegations, officials said.
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