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Afghan authorities doused piles of illegal drugs in petrol before setting them on fire near the capital Kabul on Sunday (October 14).
Officials from the Afghan government, the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) and the U.S. embassy watched the 24.5 tonnes of drugs being destroyed.
Afghanistan has long been the world's leading supplier of opium.
It supplies about 90 percent of the world's opium, from which heroin is made, and its poppy-driven economy helps fuel the decade-long war, lining insurgents' pockets with more than $100 million a year and earning traffickers billions more.
