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Azerbaijan downs drones and seizes 22.9 kg of drugs on the Iranian border

02 November 2026, 09:30 UTC - Daily Turkic - Original post on Telegram

Azerbaijan downs drones and seizes 22.9 kg of drugs on the Iranian border

Azerbaijan downs drones and seizes 22.9 kg of drugs on the Iranian border

Azerbaijan's State Border Service has stopped 22.9 kilograms of narcotics being smuggled from Iran, and downed drones that illegally entered the country's airspace, APA reports. The operations took place in the areas covered by the Horadiz and Goytepe border detachments.

Border guards found the drones and seized the drugs during the operations. The combination of drones and drug loads is a pattern border forces across the region have warned about: small unmanned aircraft carrying packages across frontiers that are hard to patrol on foot.

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