Punjab: BSF foils another smuggling bid, seizes 2.3 kg heroin dropped by Pak drone
PTC News Desk: Border Security Force (BSF) seized 2.35 kg of heroin dropped by a Pakistani drone near the International Border in Punjab's Tarn Taran district on Tuesday.
"On the intervening night of July 17-18, its troops deployed near the border fence heard the dropping of something by drone," BSF said.
The BSF said that during a search operation at about 6.45 a.m. on Tuesday, its personnel found a suspicious package ahead of the border fence in a farming field near Kalsian Khurd village in the Tarn Taran area.
During the extensive search, BSF personnel found one packet of narcotics suspected to be heroin weighing 2.35 kg wrapped in yellow adhesive tape in a farming field ahead of the border fencing.
"Vigilant troops of BSF, once again, were able to foil nefarious design of smugglers," said the BSF.
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- ANI
