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Afghan authorities crack down on alcohol sales by admin in Culture visit site

Afghanistan authorities have destroyed 630 bottles of wine and 3,300 cans of beer in Kabul as a public demonstration of the government's crackdown on alcohol in the Islamic state. The alcohol was stacked up in a park in the capital, then smashed, set alight and rolled over by a bulldozer in front of a crowd of police and journalists. The contraband had been snatched in a raid on four guest houses, where 11 non-Afghans were detained and are set to be returned to their country of ...