BSF shoots down drone along Pakistan border in Punjab

AMRITSAR: Border Security Forces on Friday shot down a drone that came to a village in Punjab after crossing the Pakistan border. The drone was spotted at around 1.15 am on Friday in Dhanoe Kalan village in the Amritsar sector. The drone was a black DJI Matrix-300 Chinese-made drone.

According to a BSF officer, BSF personnel on night patrolling near the international border heard a humming sound during the early hours on Friday. "Personnel illuminated the area by firing para bombs to aim at the object and fired several shots towards it," he said.

"The quadcopter was coming from the Pakistani side was shot down by its troops in Ram Tirath area of Amritsar sector," he said.

The BSF, in a statement, said, "An intensive search of the depth area was carried out and at about 6:15 am, the troops recovered a black coloured Quadcopter, "Made in China", Model-DJI Matrice - 300" near Dhanoe Kalan."