11 KILOGRAMS OF NARCOTICS CONFISCATED IN TAJIKISTAN.

DUSHANBE, March 9 (Itar-Tass) - Over eleven kilograms of narcotic drugs,
including almost four kilos of pure heroin, have been confiscated by Tajik
customs officers over the past day alone, Chairman of the Tajik Customs
Committee Rakhim Karimov told Itar-Tass on Tuesday.

Four young nationals of Tajikistan were detained when boarding the plane to
Yekaterinburg on Monday morning on suspicion of smuggling narcotic drugs.
About two kilograms of pure heroin were found in the men's stomachs in an
X-ray analysis. A heroin pack unsealed inside one of the men and almost
killed its carrier. The failed smuggler was taken to hospital with a grave
poisoning.

Two kilograms of heroin and over seven kilograms of raw opium were
confiscated from a conductor of the Dushanbe-Moscow train on Tuesday evening.

The attempts to smuggle drugs by air and railroad are made every day,
Karimov said. About 100 kilograms of narcotics have been confiscated since
the beginning of this year. Almost one fourth of the drugs are pure heroin.