Jammu Police on Friday thwarted a major plot of Pakistan’s terror outfit Jaish-e-Mohammad to carry out a major strike in the Jammu region. Police shot down a drone coming from Pakistan in the Guda Pattan area of Akhnoor at around 1 am.
“Drone was shot at about 0100 hours in Guda Pattan area of Akhnoor when it was 10-12 feet from ground level. Soon after the drone was shot down, a bomb disposal squad was called from Jammu and destroyed the timer IED. Drone was powered with four batteries of 25,000 MAH each to help it carry payload deep inside Indian Territory,” a police official said.
He added that from the spot a black coloured drone having 6 wings, 2 antenna and 4 batteries, one sealed packet and a thin string of length about 6.5 feet were recovered. Police have also collected samples of the destroyed timer IED as it will play a crucial role in the investigation of Indian Air Force blast case probe.
The National Investigation Agency team is expected to visit the spot where the drone was shot down by the police. The NIA is investigating the Jammu IAF blast case. It is also in touch with Jammu and Kashmir Police for forensic reports of explosives used for fabricating IED.
“Thursday night, we got specific inputs of terror outfit Jaish-e-Mohammad dropping some payload via a drone in Akhnoor sector. We acted swiftly upon the input and laid an ambush. Around 1 am, a police team shot down a drone, well packed with 5kg IED, which was almost ready to be used. A preliminary analysis of the drone revealed that it was a hexacopter with six wings and a flight controller and GPS. We have recovered the same threads and it is now confirmed that a similar drone had dropped the payload at IAF station,” said ADG Jammu Zone Mukesh Singh.