Kabul, Oct 2
Police have discovered illegal drugs of opium poppy in the western Afghanistan Herat province and took into custody two persons on charges of involvement in the drug business, provincial police spokesman Ghulam Nabi Babizada said on Thursday.
The alleged drug smugglers were busy selling 20 kg of opium poppy when police arrested them red-handed, the official said, News Agency reported.
Both the arrested persons have been taken into police custody for investigation, the official further said.
Police won't allow anyone to produce or smuggle illegal drugs elsewhere in the province, the official asserted.
On September 24, a provincial police office said police had discovered and destroyed two drug processing labs in southern Afghanistan's Uruzgan province.