The Border Security Force (BSF) shot down a Pakistani drone that had intruded into the Indian airspace in Punjab’s Tarn Taran sector on Friday night.
“On June 23, 2023, at around 9:12 pm, BSF intercepted movement of a suspected drone near Village – T J Singh, District – Tarn Taran. As per the laid down drill, BSF troops immediately reacted to intercept the drone,” BSF Punjab Frontier said.
A joint search operation was carried out with Punjab Police on Saturday morning after which at about 8:10 am, a drone in broken condition was recovered from a farming field adjacent to the village Lakhana, BSF stated.
The recovered drone is a Quadcopter of model DJI Matrice 300 RTK series.
The BSF further said another Pakistani drone was recovered by joint efforts of BSF and Punjab Police in the Ferozepur sector.
