{"id":23639,"date":"2026-10-10T13:15:13","date_gmt":"2026-10-10T13:15:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/2026\/10\/10\/takhar-narcotics-police-seize-614-kg-opium-private-ambulance\/"},"modified":"2026-10-10T13:15:13","modified_gmt":"2026-10-10T13:15:13","slug":"takhar-narcotics-police-seize-614-kg-opium-private-ambulance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/2026\/10\/10\/takhar-narcotics-police-seize-614-kg-opium-private-ambulance\/","title":{"rendered":"Narcotics police seize 614 kg of opium in Takhar"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Takhar police command says anti-narcotics officers in the province have discovered and seized 614 kilograms of the narcotic opium during an operation.<\/p>\n<p>According to the command, the shipment had been loaded in a private ambulance in Badakhshan province and was being transported through Takhar to an &#8220;unknown&#8221; destination.<\/p>\n<p>This is the second reported case of opium being transported in a private ambulance in Takhar in less than a month. According to the information provided, about 20 days ago, 420 kilograms of opium were also discovered and seized from a private ambulance in the same province.<\/p>\n<p>Takhar province is located in northeastern Afghanistan, and its transport routes linking several neighbouring provinces have in recent years repeatedly been mentioned in reports on drug smuggling.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Anti-narcotics police in Takhar seize 614 kg of opium from a private ambulance, officials say.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":23637,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23639","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-important-news","category-security-incidents"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23639","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23639"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23639\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23637"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23639"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23639"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23639"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}