DUSHANBE, March 20, Asia-Plus  -- Tajikistan’s Drug Control Agency (DCA) burned more than 160 kilograms of drugs on Monday [March 20].  

Avaz Yuldoshev, a spokesman for the DCA, has told Asia-Plus that the totaled included 24 kilograms of heroin and more than 140 kilograms of raw opium.  

The DCA spokesman says all these drugs were confiscated in the course of 2005-2006.

“This is the third such drug burning since the beginning of the year,” Yuldoshev said, adding that some 300 kilograms of drugs were burnt in those three drug burnings.