Police destroy over 27,000 wild cannabis bushes in Sughd
Police in Tajikistan's Sughd region destroyed 29,962 wild cannabis bushes at nine sites over five days during Operation Kuknor-2010, the regional police directorate reported on 21 June 2010. The largest stands, about 10,000 and 8,853 bushes, grew on farmland and in a city park.
Officers of the anti-drug department and city and district police found and destroyed over 27,000 wild cannabis bushes across northern Tajikistan in five days as part of Operation Kuknor-2010, the Sughd regional police directorate told Asia-Plus on 21 June 2010.[1]The itemised finds add up to 29,962 bushes at nine sites.[1]
The largest stands were about 10,000 bushes on land of a farming association brigade in Bobojon Ghafurov district and 8,853 wild Indian cannabis bushes in the S. Ayni recreation park in Chkalovsk.[1]Police also cleared 2,500 bushes in Asht district, 2,400 in Spitamen district, 1,500 at a cemetery in Zafarobod district, 1,200 on a Zafarobod village’s land, 1,223 at a Qayroqqum rest home, 1,327 in a Chkalovsk park and 959 at a Mastchoh district cemetery.[1]Every stand found was destroyed.[1]
Case data
Every number and detail the sources state, with the sources that state it.
Plants destroyed
29,962
Agency type
Police
Cannabis
Herbal cannabis
Setting
Forest or wild land
Grown
Wild
Case stage
Under investigation
Sources
Asia-Plusasiaplus.newsRUБолее 27 тыс. кустов дикорастущей конопли обнаружено и уничтожено на севере Таджикистана
Open questions the AI reported
Only one source for this operation could be found and opened.
No arrests or planted-crop charges were reported; the account describes wild stands only.
No photograph of the destroyed stands with a recoverable direct image address was found in the opened source.
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