Another Pak drone recovered in Punjab

CHANDIGARH: A second Pakistan-made drone was recovered on Friday from a border village near Attari in Amritsar, confirming Punjab police’s suspicion that more than one of these had been used by a Khalistani terrorist module to airdrop arms and ammunition. The first drone, a partially charred one, had been found near the border in Tarn Taran district on September 24, two days after police claimed to have busted the terrorist module of an outfit that calls itself Khalistan Zindabad Force (KZF).
Based on information extracted from Akashdeep Singh, one of the four terror suspects arrested in the case, police traced the second drone to Mahawa village of Amritsar district. A team from the special operations cell had taken Akashdeep to the village to locate the “hidden” drone. DSP Balbir Singh of the counter-intelligence wing in Amritsar said Akashdeep had admitted to setting fire to the first drone at Chabhal in Tarn Taran and hiding the second one in Mahawa after it crashed while flying back to Pakistan.
The drone recovered on Friday is around 5 feet in length and has a payload of 5-6kg. “Since such drones fly at a height of 300 to 400 metres, they escape radar detection. We have to monitor drone intrusions manually,” the DSP said. “Akashdeep told interrogators that he used one of the shut godowns of a rice trader in Chabhal to destroy the first drone.” Police say Akashdeep and the other suspects had been conspiring to carry out a series of terrorist strikes in Punjab and its neighbouring states.
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1. ^{^} Attari (timesofindia.indiatimes.com)
2. ^{^} Amritsar (www.happytrips.com)
3. ^{^} Amritsar district (timesofindia.indiatimes.com)
4. ^{^} Pakistan (timesofindia.indiatimes.com)

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