Police destroy 2 heroin labs in Afghanistan

The Special Afghan Counter-Narcotics Police destroyed two heroin labs during an operation in Badakhshan province, northeast Afghanistan, chief of Counter-Narcotics department in the province said on Tuesday.

"The special forces launched a search operation in Kasham district on Monday and discovered two heroin making laboratories in Gandom Qul village," Musadiqullah Khan told Xinhua.

He also said that both factories were demolished by police, adding "Some 1,500 kg of chemical items used in manufacturing the contraband was also found and smashed."

However, he asserted that no one had been arrested during the operation.

This is the second crackdown against opium and illicit drug in Kasham district over the past two weeks. In the previous operation also two heroin labs were destroyed.

Twenty out of 34 provinces in the militancy-hit Afghanistan have been announced poppy-free. Nevertheless, the war-torn country is still producing over 90 percent of the raw material used in manufacturing heroin in the world.

Source: Xinhua