In this Dec. 25, 2016 photo, an Afghan health worker, left, escorts a drug addict during a campaign to help drug users get care and counseling, in Kabul, Afghanistan. A small group of former addicts is trying to help drug users in Afghanistan, a country with one of the highest rates of addiction in the world. Thousands can be found in the streets of the capital, Kabul, sleeping under bridges, as the government struggles to provide services and rein in cultivation of poppies that produce opium and heroin. (AP Photo/Rahmat Gul)
Officials at Kabul Municipality said that they have transferred bodies of 17 homeless drug addicts who have died due to subzero temperatures to forensic from different parts of Kabul city.
Rahil Kohistani, head of cultural department at Kabul Municipality, said that most of the bodies were collected from PD 6th and Pul-e-Sokhta area of Kabul.
The Afghan capital is plagued with homeless drug addicts, largely a consequence of the widespread opium production in the country.
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