BSF intercepts Pak drone on Punjab border, fifth in 4 days
CHANDIGARH:The Border Safety Pressure (BSF) intercepted a fifth drone from Pakistan in lower than every week and seized a consignment of narcotics alongside the border in Punjab, officers mentioned on Tuesday.
“On Could 22 at about 9 p.m. alert BSF troops deployed in depth space heard a gentle buzzing sound of a suspected Pak drone within the space close to Bhaini Rajputana Village in Amritsar district,” mentioned BSF in its official assertion.
The BSF troops instantly reacted to intercept the Pak drone with the contraband and efficiently downed it.
Throughout subsequent searches of the world, the troops recovered a black colored drone (Quadcopter, DJI Matrice, 300 RTK) together with a consignment containing two packets of suspected 2.1 kg narcotics, it mentioned.
The narcotics had been hooked up to the drone by an iron ring.
A small torch was additionally hooked up with the consignment, for simple detection by the smugglers.
This has been the fifth reported interception of a drone alongside the Punjab border since Could 19, the day the troops intercepted and recovered two Pakistani drones in two incidents within the Amritsar sector together with narcotics.