MOSCOW, May 26 (RIA Novosti) - Russian border guards eliminated four drug couriers and seized a large batch of heroin on the Tajik-Afghan border, the PR department of the Russian Federal Security Service (FSB) said.
The couriers were moving from Afghanistan to Tajikistan at a sector of the Moscow border detachment on May 25 night.
"The border guards opened fire to kill. After that, they found the bodies of drug couriers and two bags with 32 kilograms of heroin and 1.2 kilograms of marijuana," the FSB spokesman said.
Since the beginning of 2004 Russian border guards seized over 570 kilograms of drugs, mainly heroin, on the Tajik-Afghan border.
