Kabul: Afghan officials say counter-narcotics teams have seized roughly 23 tons of heroin and morphine and other chemicals in a helicopter raid.
They say the bust yesterday is the largest so far this year. Raid commander General Abdul Khalil Bahktyar said in a news conference today that helicopter-borne commandos raided a facility in the Sherzad district of Nangarhar province east of Kabul.
They seized drugs and large quantities of chemicals such as ammonium chloride, which are used in the manufacture of illicit narcotics.
Bahktyar says the massive haul was the latest in a series of 210 raids so far this year in which his commandos have arrested more than 190 suspects. He said the drugs were destroyed at the scene and six drug labs dismantled.
PTI
First Published: Tuesday, March 12, 2013, 20:58