Punjab: China-made drone recovered from village in Amritsar, says cop

Amritsar: On Sunday, an official said that a joint team of Punjab Police and Border Security Force (BSF) recovered a drone in Punjab. This incident happened in the Nesta village of Amritsar Punjab.

In a statement an official said that the China-made Quadcopter was recovered from the outskirts of the Nesta village in Amritsar. The official release said, “On 12th November 2023, during morning hours, on specific information regarding the presence of a drone, a Joint search Operation was launched by BSF and Punjab Police on the outskirts of Village, Nesta of Amritsar.”

The official release said a search operation was launched at 9:45 am and the drone was recovered from a field adjacent to Nesta village.On Friday also, BSF had recovered a Chinese-made Pakistani quadcopter drone near the international border in Tarn Taran district of Punjab.

On the intervening night of 3–4 November, BSF intercepted a suspected drone activity near village Tindi Wala and recovered a Pakistani drone from a field in Firozpur district of Punjab. According to officials, the recovered drone model was a DJI Mavic 3 Classic quadcopter.