Uzbek border guard died in a shootout with an Afghan drug trap

Uzbekistan’s border troops sold on the border with Afghanistan. This was announced by the President of Uzbekistan Shavkat Mirzieev at a meeting with voters in Namangan, reports “Sputnik Uzbekistan”.

According to the head of state, the border guard died, protecting the state border from the tried to penetrate the country of Afghan drug dealers led by drug fell.

“But our position in the question of the inviolability of our territory is firm, if necessary, we will protect our border with weapons,” said Mirzieev, noting the determination of the Armed Forces of Uzbekistan to protect the security of the country.

On September 21, employees of the intelligence officers to combat smuggling in India found almost three tons of heroin in the port of Gujarat. According to the publication, the cost of the seized batch of prohibited substances is estimated at 2.7 billion dollars. It is assumed that drugs were delivered from Afghanistan under the guise of Talca through the port of Bender Abbas in Iran.

In this case, the “Taliban” movement (a terrorist organization prohibited in the Russian Federation) asked Russia to help eliminate all drug trains. According to the Deputy Minister of Culture and Information of the Interim Government of Afghanistan Zabilella Mujahid, the new Afghan authorities seek to stop smuggling drugs and count on the help of Moscow in this matter, since the world and stability in the region also in the interests of Russia.

Earlier in the UN, they stated that the Taliban received hundreds of millions of dollars from drug trafficking and from other illegal sources before seized Afghanistan.

/Media reports.