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| Russian Guard, 6 Afghans Killed on Tajik-Afghan Border |
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FRI, OCT 12, 2001
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A Russian border guard and six Afghan drug smugglers were shot dead overnight in fighting at the Tajik-Afghan border, said reports reaching in Alma Ata from Tajikistan's capital of Dushanbe.
This was the first time this year that a Russian guard was killed on the Tajik-Afghan border, Russian border guards' press service said.
Tajikistan has been a major trafficking route for drugs heading for Russia and western Europe from neighboring Afghanistan.
Most of the Tajik-Afghan border is patrolled by 11,000 Russian soldiers under an agreement between Russia and Tajikistan, one of the poorest of the former Soviet republics. Tajik patrolmen monitor only a tenth of the 1,340-kilometer border.
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