Tajikistan seizes heroin worth $ three-million

The heroin was found in the gas tank of a truck bound for the Moscow region in Russia.

Tajik officials have seized 60 kilograms (132 pounds) of heroin with an estimated street value of about three million dollars (2.4 million euros), the country's anti-drug agency said on Tuesday.

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The heroin was found in the gas tank of a truck bound for the Moscow region in Russia.

Tajikistan, a former Soviet republic in central Asia, neighbours Afghanistan, the world's leading heroin producer and has become a centre for smuggling Afghan drugs to Russia and the West.

A drugs agency spokesman said that 3.7 tonnes of Afghan drugs were intercepted in the first nine months of this year, including 1.6 tonnes of heroin.