Iran's police has killed 6 drug smugglers in its eastern borders, the official IRNA news agency reported on Sunday quoting an informed source.

An informed source in the southeasten province of Sistan Balouchestan said that in an armed conflict on Saturday afternoon in eastern borders of the country six bandits were killed, the report said.

The "police forces, who had controlled parts of eastern borders during 72 past hours, in a conflict with bandits killed and wounded a number of them and discovered five tons of drug," the source, who asked not to be named, said to IRNA.

The "operation against bandits is in progress in the area, and since the conflicts continue, more details would not be revealed now," the source added.

Brigadier General Ismail Ahmadi-Moqaddam, secretary general of Iran's Drug Control Headquarters (DCH) announced Wednesday that Iran had enhanced its capacity of controlling drugs in the border areas.

Ahmadi-Moqaddam also said most parts of the insecure border zones of Sistan-Balouchestan and western province of Kurdistan have been sealed.

According to a statement released by the Information and Media Communication Center of the police late last month, Iran had seized some 375 tons of narcotics in the past eight months and spent over 600 million U.S. dollars in the past two years to dig canals, build barriers and install barbed wire to seal off the borders.

Iran lies at the crossroads of drug smuggling from Afghanistan in its eastern borders to the West and has already been struggling in battles against drug trafficking as well as drug abuse.

Source:Xinhua