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Drug control officers in Sughd burn over 60 kilos of narcotics

DUSHANBE, December 7, 2012, Asia-Plus  — The Drug Control Agency (DCA)’s office in the northern Sughd province has burned more than 60 kilograms of narcotics. According to the DCA press center, a drug burning ceremony was held in Khujand, the capital of Sughd province on Thursday December 6.  Some 64 kilograms of drugs were burned […]

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DUSHANBE, December 7, 2012, Asia-Plus  — The Drug Control Agency (DCA)’s office in the northern Sughd province has burned more than 60 kilograms of narcotics.

According to the DCA press center, a drug burning ceremony was held in Khujand, the capital of Sughd province on Thursday December 6.  Some 64 kilograms of drugs were burned in a special narcotics-burning incinerator.  A totaled included some 10 kilograms of heroin, more than 12 kilograms of raw opium and more than 40 kilograms of cannabis.

The drugs were reportedly confiscated in the course of this year and were material evidences in eighteen criminal proceedings. 

Since the beginning of this year, officers from the DCA’s office have destroyed 173.5 kilograms of narcotics, the source added.  

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