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Punjab : BSF shot down 2 Pakistani drone along the international border, 4th in two days

New Delhi: The Border Security Force (BSF) detected four Pakistani drones in separate incidents during the last 24 hours and shot down three of them in Punjab along the international border. BSF spokesperson said on Saturday (May 20) that these three drones were detected on Friday night.

By: Priyanka Verma  Pardaphash Group
Updated:
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Punjab : BSF shot down 2 Pakistani drone along the international border, 4th in two days

New Delhi: The Border Security Force (BSF) detected four Pakistani drones in separate incidents during the last 24 hours and shot down three of them in Punjab along the international border. BSF spokesperson said on Saturday (May 20) that these three drones were detected on Friday night.

BSF Punjab Frontier told that a drone has been recovered during the search. Further search operation is going on. This is the fourth drone shot down by BSF in the last 2 days. Three drones were detected on Friday night while the fourth drone was detected on Saturday night.

The spokesman said that the first drone ‘DJI Matrice 300 RTK’ was recovered from Dhariwal village of Amritsar district. According to the spokesperson, the BSF jawans fired and shot down the unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) at around 9 pm on Friday (May 19).

The spokesman said that the second drone was recovered from Ratan Khurd village in the district when the jawans fired at around 9.30 pm. According to the spokesperson, two packets were attached to this drone, out of which 2.6 kg of suspected heroin was recovered.

He told that the third drone was also intercepted on Friday night, but it could not be recovered as it fell in the Pakistani territory. The spokesman said that it can be seen in the CCTV footage that people are collecting this third drone inside the Pakistani border.

Officials said the fourth drone “violated Indian airspace on Saturday night and was fired upon in the Amritsar sector”. A drone and a bag of suspected narcotics have been recovered, he said.

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