Forces destroy 4 narcotics labs

Monitoring Desk

KUNUDZ: Security forces demolished four narcotics laboratories in the Argo district, they claimed Monday. Afghan combined forces launched massive operation codenamed Kokcha-17 in Argo district, clearing almost all the areas of the district of local and foreign fighters, said Ghulam Hazrat Karimi, press officer of ANA 20th Division in northeastern Afghanistan. He told AIP the security forces raided narcotics processing laboratories in the Doghlak and Khwaja Maula areas, destroying four laboratories and arrest a guard of one of the four laboratories.

He said the operation was smoothly underway. There was no word by Taliban who have control over two districts of the same district.