Afghan police set on fire over 3.7 tons of narcotics

KABUL, Feb. 22 (Xinhua) -- Afghan police in a drive against illegal drugs set ablaze more than 3.7 tons of narcotics in the southern Uruzgan province on Sunday, provincial police spokesman Bilal Urzgani said.

The contraband, which included different kinds of illegal drugs, had been discovered during a series of operations in the provincial capital Tirin Kot and several districts recently.

This is the second time over the past week that the police have burned narcotics publicly in the southern region.

Earlier, police reported burning more than 27 tons of illegal drugs in Uruzgan's neighboring Kandahar province on Wednesday.

The Afghan government has vowed to fight the cultivation of illegal crops, including opium poppy, as well as their processing and trafficking, until the once drug-producing nation gets free of the drug menace. Enditem