Express News Service
SRINAGAR: Police on Sunday morning shot down a drone within the border district of Kathua in Jammu and Kashmir.
Police in a tweet mentioned on the premise of drone exercise noticed within the space of Talli Hariya chak beneath police station Rajbagh in Kathua district, early morning search social gathering of police was being repeatedly despatched within the common space.
Kathua district shares a global border with Pakistan.
“In the early morning today, the police search party observed a drone coming from the border side and fired at it,” police mentioned.
On the premise of #drone exercise noticed within the space of Talli Hariya chak beneath police station #Rajbag in district #Kathua, Early morning search social gathering of police was being repeatedly despatched within the common space. pic.twitter.com/bIo77hhYzK
— Police Media Centre Jammu (@ZPHQJammu) May 29, 2022
It mentioned the drone was shot down.
The drone, in accordance with police, had a payload attachment. It is being screened by the bomb disposal specialists.
There has been a surge in drone actions alongside the frontiers in J&Ok in the previous few years. Due to elevated drone exercise in J&Ok, the safety grid alongside the International Border and Line of Control (LoC) has been beefed up with the deployment of extra males and complicated devices.
In June final yr, explosive-laden drones have been used to assault the Indian Air Force station in Jammu.
The low-flying drones have been used to drop two low-intensity IEDs and it was the primary drone assault on any defence institution in J&Ok.
