A pistol and a magazine packet dropped by a Pakistani drone were recovered on Sunday in a field near the India-Pakistan border in Punjab's Firozpur district. A Border Security Force (BSF) official said that after receiving information about the presence of a suspicious object, BSF personnel had started a search operation.
He said that during a search operation at around 9 am on Sunday, BSF personnel recovered two packets from a field near Tendi Wala village in Firozpur district.
The BSF officer said that one packet contained a Glock pistol with a magazine, while the other contained suspected heroin (548 grams). Both the packets, wrapped in yellow adhesive tape and tied to iron hooks, may have been dropped by a drone. On January 8, the BSF had recovered a packet containing a Glock pistol from a field near the India-Pakistan border in Amritsar district.
Let us inform that acting on the intelligence received regarding the presence of a suspicious object near the border area of Firozpur district, BSF conducted a careful search operation at the identified place. In this, BSF successfully recovered two packets from a field near Tendiwala village of the district.
One packet contained a Glock pistol with a magazine, while the other contained 548 grams of suspected heroin. BSF believes that both the packets, wrapped in yellow adhesive tape and attached to iron hooks, may have been dropped from the drone. Let us tell you, BSF is continuously running a campaign to deal with smuggling. By intercepting Pakistani drones carrying consignments of heroin or weapons, BSF is continuously thwarting the efforts of smugglers and protecting national security.
