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Tk 5.5cr smuggled cigarette seized from container  

After a tip-off by a clearing agent, customs officials yesterday confiscated a huge amount of foreign cigarettes inside a 40-foot container, which was officially declared to contain electric-touch-lamps, at the Inland Container Depot (ICD) at Kamlapur.

Shipped from the Chinese port of Shen Zen, the container arrived at the Kamlapur ICD from Chittagong port on July 25. The estimated street value of the cigarettes would be around Tk 5.5 crore, customs sources said.

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