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Police seize 41 kg of heroin in eastern Turkey

Türkiye Materials 13 July 2009 22:00 (UTC +04:00)
Police seize 41 kg of heroin in eastern Turkey

Turkish police seized 41 kg of heroin in eastern Turkey on Monday, Xinhua quoted the semi-official Anatolia news agency as reporting.   

According to a tip-off, the police teams launched an operation against drug traffickers in eastern province of Erzincan, said the report.

The report added that the police stopped a car at the entrance of the city center and found the heroin stashed in its cache by the help of a sniffer dog.

Two suspected people in the car were arrested, said the report.

Turkey is a key transit route for smuggling drugs from Asia and the Middle East to markets in western Europe.

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