DUSHANBE , May 3, Asia-Plus -- Tajik border troops intercepted more than 320 kilograms of drugs in April this year, according to information from the Committee for Protection of the State Border of Tajikistan.

The Tajik border service source says the totaled included 116 kilograms of heroin.  Since the beginning of the year, Tajik border troops have seized 884 kilograms of drugs, with almost a half of them being heroin, according to the source.  

Last month saw two engagements between Tajik border troops and armed drug traffickers on the Tajik-Afghan border. Two grenade launchers were confiscated.

11 cases of illegal crossing of national border, mainly on its Afghan stretch, were reported in April this year. 

In April, eleven special operations were carried out on the Tajik-Afghan border.  Of them, four operations were carried out in cooperation with other power-wielding structures of the country.