The Border Security Force (BSF) personnel opened fire on Friday night to shoot down a Pakistani drone near the International Border in Jammu and Kashmir's Samba district, officials said. Troops of the BSF detected the movement of the drone from the Pakistan side late in the night and fired nearly two dozen rounds, they said on Saturday. The drone, however, was flown back to the Pakistani side, the officials said.
They said a search operation was launched in Narayanpur in the Ramgarh sector on Saturday morning to sanitize the border outpost area to ensure the drone did not drop any weapons or narcotics.
Another drone recovered
A drone and two packets of heroin were recovered in three separate incidents near the India-Pakistan international border in Punjab, an official said last week. The Border Security Force recovered the drone in broken condition from a field in village Kalia in Tarn Taran district recently.
The drone was a China-made DJI Mavic 3 Classic, the spokesperson said. In another incident, BSF troops recovered a packet of heroin weighing 460 grams and a small torch tied to it from a field adjacent to village Hardo Ratan in Amritsar.
The search operation was launched after the BSF was tipped-off about the heroin. Another packet of heroin weighing 406 grams was found in a field in village Sankatara in Tarn Taran district on Friday, said the spokesperson.
