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Jammu: Police Recover 3 Magnetic IEDs With Timer Set Dropped By Drone In Akhnoor

On Monday night, BSF troops resorted to firing briefly along the India-Pakistan border in the Jammu district on suspicion of a drone flying around.

New Delhi: The Jammu and Kashmir found three magnetic IEDs dropped by a drone on Tuesday morning. The officials said that the IEDs were recovered from the border area of the Jammu district and was a fresh attempt to smuggle explosives through the aerial route. According to a PTI report, the IEDs along with their timer sets were packed inside tiffin boxes and the police recovered it from the Kantowala-Dayaran area of Kanachak in the Akhnoor sector.

On Monday night, BSF troops resorted to firing briefly along the India-Pakistan border in the Jammu district after hearing a humming sound which led to a suspicion that a drone was flying around.

A police party was immediately deployed and they followed anti-drone standard operating procedure in the area.

Around 11 pm, security forces noticed the drone in the Dayaran area of Kanachak and fired at it again, the Additional Director General of Police (ADGP), Jammu, Mukesh Singh said.

"The payload attached was brought down but the drone could not be shot," he said, adding the IEDs were diffused through a controlled explosion and a case has been registered.

Meanwhile, a senior Border Security Force official said on Monday that the threat of drones is present everywhere along the Indo-Pakistan border but security forces are alert to foil any nefarious design from across the border in the region.

He said that Army and BSF are fully dominating the Line of Control (LoC) to ensure the protection of the people along the frontier.

"The threat of drones.. is prevalent everywhere (along the Indo-Pak border). Nobody can say that there is no such threat in Rajouri or Poonch or any hinterland,'' the Deputy Inspector General (DIG) of the BSF Rajouri Poonch sector, D S Sindhu, told reporters at a function in Rajouri.

"There is a threat of drones in all areas along our borders," he said replying to queries on the issue.

He said that troops are alert along the borderline to protect the people living in border areas.

(With PTI Inputs)

 

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