Pakistani drone spotted in Punjab’s Bamial, returns after BSF opens fire

A Pakistani drone entered the Indian territory on Sunday however was pressured to return as BSF jawans spotted it and opened fire in its path in Punjab’s Pathankot district, a police official mentioned. “The drone which got here from the Pakistani aspect was sighted at Dinda publish near Bamial alongside the Indo-Pak worldwide border,” Pathankot Senior Superintendent of Police Gulneet Singh Khurana instructed over telephone.

He mentioned the BSF opened fire in its path after which it returned to the neighbouring nation.

Asked if the drone dropped something contained in the Indian territory earlier than flying again, Khurana mentioned, “A radical search operation was carried out on the web site, however nothing was discovered.”

In December 2020, 11 hand grenades dropped by a drone flying in from Pakistan have been recovered from a subject close to the International Border in Punjab’s Gurdaspur district.

The consignment was discovered in Salach village, positioned about one km from the border.

The field of hand grenades had been connected to a wood body which was lowered from the drone onto the bottom with a nylon rope, police had then mentioned.

The first incident of dropping of arms and weapons by drones from Pakistan got here to gentle in Punjab in September 2019 when police recovered AK-47 rifles, magazines and rounds of ammunition, hand grenades, pretend foreign money and different objects in Tarn Taran district.