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Tuesday, 27 February, 2001, 16:24 GMT
Azerbaijan burns drug seed
The custom authorities in Azerbaijan have held a mass public burning of nearly fifty tonnes of marijuana seeds. They say it's the biggest display of drug-burning ever, and if planted, the seeds could have produced up to four-hundred tonnes of the drug. The seeds were seized in transit from Afghanistan to Europe. From the newsroom of the BBC World Service |
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