Arms, ammunition dropped by Pak drone recovered from Samba in J&K

Security forces on Friday morning recovered a consignment of arms and ammunition, dropped by a Pakistani drone, from a seasonal rivulet in the border district of Samba in Jammu & Kashmir. Authorities said the place where the consignment was dropped is just 2km from the zero line on Indo-Pak international border

Western Command, Indian Army, tweeted on Friday afternoon, "Own vigilant troops #RisingStarCorps spotted Drone activity near the IB in #Samba at early hours today. Search of the area resulted in recovery of arms and ammunition.@adgpi."

Samba district police chief, SSP Rajesh Sharma, said, "Army's JAK LI along with police launched a search operation in Babbar Nullah in Rajpura area this morning from where two pistols, five magazines, 122 rounds of ammunition and a silencer were recovered."

Official sources said the consignment was packed properly in polythene.Intelligence and security agencies are probing whether LeT could be using this modus operandi.

On July 23, Jammu and Kashmir Police claimed they shot down a Pakistani drone carrying a five-kg Improvised Explosive Device (IED) in Kanachak area of Akhnoor sector in Jammu district. Drones have been repeatedly spotted in the region since June 27 when one was used to target the Indian Air Force base in Jammu with explosives. The explosives left two personnel injured.