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28kg of heroin seized on Tajik-Afghan border

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DUSHANBE, September 17 (RIA Novosti) - The Tajik Drug Control Agency prevented smuggling of more than 28 kilograms of heroin from Afghanistan, the agency's spokesman said Saturday.

A drug courier was found on the Tajik-Afghan border 180 kilometers to the southeast of Dushanbe, the Tajik capital, in the small hours of September 17, Major Avaz Yuldashev said.

"The courier put up armed resistance during the detention and the agency's officers and Tajik border guards had to open return fire," he said. "But the Afghan smuggler escaped."

The Tajik Drug Control Agency seized about 700 kilograms of drugs, including some 400 kilograms of heroin, from the beginning of 2005.

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