Arms-laden Pak drone shot down by BSF in Kathua
JAMMU : The Border Security Force shot down a Pakistani drone along the International Border in Kathua district of Jammu and Kashmir on Saturday, the officials said. The patrolling party of the BSF found the drone flying in the Rathua area of Hiranagar sector in Kathua, Jammu And Kashmir and shot it down. The drone fell into a field.
“The Pakistani drone was flying inside Indian territory in Rathua area in Hiranagar sector around 5.10 am when a BSF patrol shot it down,” said a police officer at Kathua police control room.
Inspector General, BSF Jammu Frontier NS Jamwal said, “The BSF has shot down a drone from Pakistan near Kathua and recovered among others M-4 US-made semi-automatic rifle, 60 rounds in it, two magazines and seven M67 grenades.” “It is a big development because the Pakistanis have adopted similar mod us operandi of what they have been doing in Punjab,” he added.
The six copter drone itself weighed around 17.5 kilograms and the consignment weighed around five to six kilograms, said
Jamwal. “Surely, it was an attempt to deliver the arms and ammunition to someone here on this side,” he said.
The BSF IGP informed that the drone had a winch mechanism with which entire consignment had to be dropped to this side and it had to fly back . “This delivery was for some ‘Ali Bhai’ as the payload was carrying his name,” he said. A senior police official said that the drone was 8 feet in wide blade-to-blade and seems to have been controlled by Pak picket opposite Panesar post of BSF in Hiranagar sector.