BSF fires at Pakistan drone, foils medication, weapon smuggling bid in Punjab

Through PTI

NEW DELHI: The Border Safety Drive (BSF) on Wednesday claimed to have foiled a narcotics and weapon smuggling bid via a drone alongside the India-Pakistan border in Punjab.

A senior authentic of the drive stated troops fired on the drone when they heard a “humming sound of a suspected flying object coming from the Pakistani facet to the Indian facet” round 1 am within the Panjgrain house of Gurdaspur sector.

“All over seek within the house of village Ghaggar and Singhoke, two packets of yellow color with suspected contraband were recovered thus far,” the senior officer stated. It’s suspected that the drone dropped the packets, he added.

A pistol was once additionally noticed wrapped within the packet, and the consignment was once discovered within the box about 2.7 km from the fence, the officer stated.

A seek is on to seek out if the drone too was once downed or if it escaped, he added.