TEHRAN -- Police in southeastern Iran have seized about 10 tons of narcotics over the past two weeks and killed 90 drug traffickers in addition to arresting 147 others, a commander in the anti-drug campaign said in Sistan-Baluchestan Province on Tuesday.

Also in Mahriz, police announced on Monday that during the first ten months of the current Iranian year (from March 21 2001) 2,390kg of narcotic drugs have been confiscated from "transit traffickers" in Yazd Province.

According to the police report, the drugs included opium, morphine and hashish.