TASHKENT. June 9 (Interfax) - Uzbek customs officers have found 28 kilograms of heroin on transit trains traveling from Tajikistan to Russia and Lithuania.
"Twenty-eight kilograms of heroin were found on two passenger trains and one freight train travelling from Tajikistan to Russia and Lithuania across Uzbekistan," the Uzbek State Customs Committee told Interfax.
Customs officers took notice of a gas cylinder stored by conductors on the Dushanbe-Moscow train. The cylinder contained 7.7 kilograms of heroin.
The other arms cache was found under a car of the Khujand-Moscow train. It contained seven plastic bags with 9.3 kilograms of heroin.
Eleven bags of eleven kilograms of heroin were found under a car of the passenger train routed to Lithuania.
More than 50 drug contraband attempts have been prevented by customs this year, the committee said. A total of 34.6 kilograms of drugs were confiscated. There were 120 attempts to smuggle 185.6 kilograms of drugs last year.