Jammu: Two weeks after the twin bells triggered by drones at the Jammu Air Force Station, an alleged drone was seen near the international border in Jammu Tuesday night, pushing BSF personnel to shoot, forcing unmanned air vehicles to return to Pakistan side.
This is the sixth instance of drones floating above the Jammu area after two explosions rocked the IAF station, located about 14 km from the international border, on June 27.
The two IAF personnel suffered minor injuries in the attack, after 10 J & K districts which were prohibited from sales and the use of drones for commercial and private purposes.
A BSF spokesman on Wednesday said that the red light flashed was observed at a height of around 200 m on the side of the Indian border in the J & K Arnia sector on Tuesday night.
“Waspada’s troops fired five to six rounds of their position towards blinking light, because of the retreat.
This area was being sought but nothing was found so far,” said the spokesman.
Previously, on the night of the intervention on June 27-28, Waspada’s troops succeeded in thwarting two drone intrusions near the Ratnuchak-Kaluchak military station along the Jammu-Pathankot National Highway.
On June 30, Armymen was alert to see the UAV floating above the military station and the air force signal area for the third day in a row.
Weapon airdropping and smuggled goods from Pakistan to J & K and Punjab are not new, with some such cases reporting over the past two years.
But the activity of drones over high security zones such as defense companies in Jammu have emerged as a new security threat.