DUSHANBE, July 16, 2008. Asia-Plus -- Nearly 100 kilograms of drugs have been seized by borer guards at the Tajik-Afghan border in the Khatlon province.  

Speaking in an interview with Asia-Plus, Colonel Khoushnoud Rahmatulloyev, a spokesman for the main border directorate within the State Committee for National Security (GKNB), said that border guards on a routine patrol spotted and tried to detain a group of Afghan drug traffickers who were illegally crossing the border river in Khatlon’s Hamadoni district on July 14.  Border guards fired upon the trespassers after they tried to flee. 

The drug traffickers managed to return to the contiguous territory.  Five sacks containing some 98 kilograms of narcotics, including 10 kilograms of heroin, 52 kilograms of raw opium, and some 36 kilograms of cannabis, were found at the scene of action.