Drone with 5kg heroin recovered from Indo-Pak border in Punjab

"Tarn Taran Police in a joint search operation with BSF has recovered a hexacopter drone equipped with modern technology and packets containing heroin weighing 5 kg from fields near the Indo-Pak border," Director General of Police Gaurav Yadav tweeted on Friday.

Chandigarh: The Punjab Police and the Border Security Force (BSF), in a joint operation, recovered a drone carrying 5 kg heroin from the Indo-Pakistan border, the police said on Friday. The hexacopter was an unmanned aerial vehicle with six rotors.

The police authorities took to Twitter to inform about the recovery. "Tarn Taran Police in a joint search operation with BSF has recovered a hexacopter drone equipped with modern technology and packets containing heroin weighing 5 kg from fields near the Indo-Pak border," Director General of Police Gaurav Yadav tweeted on Friday.

Earlier on November 28, two Pakistani drones were gunned down by the BSF along the India-Pakistan border in Amritsar and Tarn Taran districts. Two hexacopters were carrying around 10 kg of heroin which were recovered by the BSF troops.