The Border Security Force (BSF) recovered an AK-47 rifle, a 9-mm pistol with a magazine and 15 rounds dropped by a Pakistani drone in the Samba sector of Jammu on Friday morning, informed officials.
“On specific information of BSF regarding the crossing of arms/ammunition through drone from Samba border area. As per input, BSF troops carried out a search operation in the general area of the Samba sector on May 14. At about 11.30 am, BSF troops recovered a wrapped item with a yellow colour polythene bag in a field. After taking all precautionary measures, troops opened the wrapped packet and found an AK-47, a pistol, a magazine, 15 rounds of 9 mm, a wooden frame (used to attach the payload with drone) and the wrapping material. The site was around 250 metre from the international border inside the Indian Territory,” reads a BSF statement.
“The efforts of alert BSF troops deployed in the multi-tiered grid have once again resulted in neutralizing the designs of Pakistan ANEs activities with deep connivance of Pakistan Rangers.
This is the same area where a tunnel was detected on 22 November 2020 and a Pakistani intruder was killed on 5 May 2021. In this connection, on 20 June 2020, BSF troops neutralized a Pak Hexacopter in Samba/Kathua area and recovered huge quantity of arms/ammunition and explosives,” it adds.
IG BSF Jammu N.S. Jamwal congratulated the alert BSF troops for this big achievement.