Five tonnes of wild cannabis burned near Kazakhstan border in Tyup
Drug control officers and border guards found about two-metre-tall wild cannabis at the Tabylgyty section of Tyup District near the Kazakhstan border and burned five tonnes of it. The regional police press service reported the destruction on 20 August 2021.
🇰🇬 Tabylgyty section, Tyup District, Issyk-Kul Region · Kyrgyzstan
Officers of the Interior Ministry’s drug control service (SBNON) for the
Issyk-Kul and Naryn regions, together with border service troops, found
wild cannabis growing almost two metres tall in the border zone with
Kazakhstan, at the Tabylgyty section of Tyup District.[1]The find was
reported by Stalbek Usubakunov, head of the press service of the Issyk-Kul
regional police.[1]
The officers burned five tonnes of the wild cannabis on the spot.[1]The
report gives no plant count, no area cleared and no arrests.[1]
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Cannabis plants at the Tabylgyty site before destruction. Photo: kaktus.mediaPhoto details
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