Another Pak drone recovered near Indo-Pak border: Police

September 27, 2019 16:49

Police on Friday recovered a Pakistani drone which was used to airdrop arms and ammunition in border areas of Punjab, the second such seizure this week in the state, officials said.

The damaged drone was recovered in Mahawa village based on the information given by one of the four people the state police arrested on Sunday. They are allegedly part of a terror module of the Khalistan Zindabad Force (KZF).

Earlier, the police had recovered a half-burnt drone on Tuesday from Tarn Taran. They had said it was also used to drop weapons from Pakistan to fuel unrest in Punjab and adjoining states.

Akashdeep, one of the four people arrested whose interrogation led to the latest seizure, also accompanied a State Special Operations Cell team of the Punjab Police to the site from where the drone was recovered. Police officials said the drone was damaged and it could not fly back to Pakistan after delivering the consignment of weapon. The state police had on Sunday claimed to have busted the terror module of the KZF, which is backed by a group based in Pakistan and Germany. -- PTI

Image: The counter intelligence wing of the Punjab police escort the alleged members of the Khalistan Zindabad Force -- arrested after the seizure of AK-47 rifles, pistols, satellite phones and grenades in their possession -- to a local court in Amritsar, on September 23, 2019.

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