DUSHANBE, November 8, 2011, Asia-Plus -- A suspected Tajik drug smuggler has reportedly inflicted a stab wound on a high-ranking officer of Kyrgyz counternarcotics agency. 

CA-News.org reports a drug pusher has been detained in the village of Ark, Leilek district of Kyrgyzstan’s Batken region on November 7 while he was going to sale more than seven kilograms of heroin.

The operation was carried out by officers from Kyrgyz State Drug Control Service (GSKN)’s Southern Department in cooperation with their Tajik colleagues and deputy chief of Kyrgyz GSKN posed as a buyer, CA-News said.

The suspected Tajik drug smuggler reportedly smelted danger and knifed the “buyer.”  Authorities captured the suspect, a 33-year-old resident of Dushanbe, and confiscated more than 7 kilograms of heroin from him.

The unidentified injured GSKN colonel has been transferred from a Tajik hospital to one of hospitals in the Kyrgyz city of Osh.