KABUL, Oct. 15 (Xinhua) -- The counter-narcotics police have foiled the attempts to smuggle 18 kg of illegal drugs, including heroin, in western Afghanistan's Nimroz province and took into custody two individuals, the provincial police said on Wednesday.
The alleged drug smugglers were attempting to smuggle 16 kg of opium poppy and 2 kg of heroin out of the province, but police discovered the contraband and took into custody its owners, provincial police spokesman Mawlawi Gul Mohammad Qudrat said.
After completion of preliminary investigations, their cases would be referred to the judiciary, he added.
Previously, in similar operations, police arrested three drug smugglers and discovered hashish in their possession in northern Afghanistan's Samangan province on Tuesday morning. ■