Punjab: The Border Security Force (BSF) shot down a Pakistani drone in the Ferozepur area of Punjab today early morning and recovered contraband.
Sources said that around 2.55 AM today the alert troopers of the BSF heard humming sounds of a suspicious flying object coming from the Pakistani side. They were swung into action immediately and the flying machine was shot down.
Immediately all the troopers were alerted and they fired on the Flying Object and also illuminated the area by firing Para bombs and the drone was shot down.
The BSF personnel found that a small bag (green coloured) was attached to the drone which contained four packets in yellow wrapping and one small packet in black colour wrapping was recovered. It is suspected to be contraband.
The gross weight of the contraband items was found to be around 4.17 kgs (with packing material) and 250 gm of black colour wrapping. In December last year, BSF shot down a Chinese-made drone along the Indo-Pak border in the Ferozepur sector of Punjab.
(SMIT SONI)