HIGH ALERT IN JAMMU ; MAGNETIC IEDs TIFFIN BOXES DROPPED
On Tuesday , The police have recovered three magnetic IEDs dropped by a drone in the border area of Jammu district .
New Delhi (The Quiver) : On late Monday night ,hearing a humming sound coming from a height of about 800 meters in the Akhnoor area along the India Pakistan border in Jammu district , the Border Security force (BSF) started firing suspecting a foreign drone flying. The alert troops fired two rounds .
Again drone activity was observed around 11 pm in Dayaran area of Kanchak , police fired at it. The drone could not be brought down but the payload attached to the drone was seized by the police. A police party was immediately deployed and they followed anti-drone standard operating procedure in the area.
Additional Director General of Police (ADGP), Jammu, Mukesh Singh said that the payload contained three magnetic IEDs packed inside tiffin boxes with the timers set. IEDs have been deactivated and diffused through a controlled explosion.
This is seen as a fresh attempt to smuggle explosives through the aerial route, officials said.
