Detective Branch of police arrested five drug traders along with 25,000 Yaba pills in Alekharchar bypass road in Adarsha Sadar upazila and Cumilla-Sylhet highway on of Cumilla Thursday night.

The identities of the arrestees could not be yet.

Tipped-off that a big consignment of Yaba from Teknaf in Cox’s Bazar was being taken to Dhaka in a microbus, a team of DB police stopped the microbus on Friday night in the area and arrested  a man with 20,000 contraband pills, said Sakhawat Hossain, additional superintendent of police at a press conference.

In another drive on the same night, DB police arrested four drug traders along with 5,000 Yaba pills on Cumilla-Sylhet highway, he added.

He said all of the arrestees were produced before a court.