The Border Security Force (BSF) has seized a cache of weapons and ammunition possibly dropped by a Pakistani drone along the international border in Punjab, officials said on Wednesday.
According to PTI, the spokesperson said BSF troops heard the humming sound of a "suspected drone coming from Pakistan" in the Uncha Takala frontier village area of Gurdaspur district on the intervening night of January 17-18.
The BSF party fired towards the direction of the suspected drone and heard the sound of something being dropped to the ground, he said.
A search of the area, which is an agricultural field, led to the recovery of a packet containing four China-made pistols, eight magazines and 47 bullet rounds.
There have been increasing concerns regarding the rise in cross-border smuggling of arms, ammunition and drugs.
According to The Hindu, the BSF has seized at least 22 drones along the India-Pakistan border in 2022 in different incidents. A total of 316.988 kilograms of heroin, 67 weapons, and 850 rounds of live cartridges were seized in separate incidents in Punjab Frontier.
As per data accessed by ANI, a total of 492 Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) or drones were sighted along the India-Pakistan border since January 1, 2020. Out of this, 311 drones were observed in 2022, 104 in 2021 and 77 in 2020.
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