27 drug trafficking suspects arrested in Afghanistan: gov't
12 May 2021, 16:30 GMT+10
KABUL, May 12 (Xinhua) -- Police in Afghanistan have arrested 27 people with drug trafficking charges in the past one week, authorities said Wednesday.
"The Counter-Narcotics Police of Afghanistan (CNPA) and detective security organizations arrested 27 suspects, including a woman, linked to 16 cases of transportation and keeping narcotics in various provinces within the past seven days," the Counter Narcotics Justice Centre of Afghanistan (CNJC) said in a statement.
The CNPA also seized some amount of narcotics from the suspects.
Eleven of the suspects, including the woman, trying to transfer the heroin-type of drugs to India, were arrested at the Hamid Karzai International Airport in Kabul, according to the statement.