Opium stash, extremist leaflets of Hizb ut-Tahrir discovered near Bishkek

Bishkek, July 31, Interfax - Agents of the Kyrgyz Drug Control Agency have discovered a cache of Hizb ut-Tahrir extremist organization near the Bishkek-Kant highway.

"The cache contained 1,478 grams of opium, 26 radical religious leaflets and 39 7.62-mm caliber cartridges," Interfax was told at the agency on Tuesday.

The contraband was discovered under fragments of a concrete panel three kilometers away from the Russia's Kant airbase, a spokesman said.