KABUL, Aug. 31 (Xinhua) -- Police have discovered a huge quantity of illicit drugs in southern Afghanistan's Helmand province and rounded up three dozen drug addicted individuals over the past week, provincial police spokesman Mullah Ezatullah Haqqani said Sunday.
Without giving the exact weight of the illegal drugs, the official added that hundreds of kilograms of a variety of unlawful objects have been seized in Garmsir and Gereshk districts, the official said, adding that police have also located a drug processing lab and smashed it.
Police have also rounded up 36 drug addicted persons during the operations and sent them to the rehabilitation centers for medical treatment, the official further said. ■