a Mongolian citizen was sentenced to death in far western China for smuggling 20.2 kg of heroin, Mongolian news agency Montsame said

a Mongolian citizen was sentenced to death in far western China for smuggling 20.2 kg of heroin, Mongolian news agency Montsame said. The Mongolian, identified as Damdin, 37, was arrested in August, 2007, while crossing the border into China from a central Asian republic. He was sentenced to death in Urumqi, the capital of Xinjiang, a western region that borders Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan and Afghanistan as well as Mongolia.