Heroin Transporting Pak Drone Shot Down By BSF at Border

Amritsar: Personnel of the Border Security Force (BSF) shot down a drone that was smuggling contraband from Pakistan to India. This drone was shot down in the Amritsar sector in the wee hours of Friday.

“On the intervening night of February 2-3 at about 2.30 am, alert BSF troops shot down a Pakistani drone which had intruded into the area of responsibility of Rear Kakkar Border Outpost in Amritsar sector, a BSF officer said.

The fallen seized on Friday morning between the border fence and the Zero Line. A packet of contraband, wrapped in yellow polythene was attached to the drone. The packet weighing about 5 Kg is suspected to be containing heroin.

According to BSF officials, it was a quadcopter drone assembled locally in Pakistan with Chinese parts as it bore labels in Chinese script along with translation in broken English.

This is the third incident of cross-border smuggling in the Punjab sector over the past two days.

On February 1, the BSF recovered 2.6kg of narcotics, suspected to be heroin that was to be dropped by a drone along the International Border in the Fazilka sector.

On January 31, a BSF area domination patrol had recovered three packets, containing about 1.76 kg of narcotics, near Maboke village in the Ferozepur sector.