Police seized 1.25 tons of refined opium after a fierce gunbattle with suspected traffickers near the border with Afghanistan in southern Baluchistan province. Acting on a tip that smugglers were using camels to take the drugs over the Afghan border, Pakistani police staked out a mountain road on the weekend and spotted two heavily armed traffickers unloading narcotics from waiting vehicles. While they waited for the camels to arrive, the traffickers, who were in Afghanistan, spotted the police, who were in Pakistan, and opened fire, but fled after a half-hour shootout. Police seized about 2,500 pounds of refined opium with a street value they estimated at $50 million, which the traffickers abandoned at the scene. No arrests were made and there were no reports of injuries.
Oh, hell. Now the check's gonna bounce for that latest shipment of rockets... |