{"id":335627,"date":"2022-02-09T07:05:10","date_gmt":"2022-02-09T12:35:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=335627"},"modified":"2022-02-09T07:05:10","modified_gmt":"2022-02-09T12:35:10","slug":"bsf-foils-drone-smuggling-attempt-of-rdx-in-punjab","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/bsf-foils-drone-smuggling-attempt-of-rdx-in-punjab\/","title":{"rendered":"BSF foils drone smuggling attempt of RDX in Punjab"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Border Security Force (BSF) on early morning of Wednesday foiled an attempt to smuggle weapons, ammunition, detonators and approximately 5 kg RDX through drone dropping close to the India-Pakistan border in Amritsar district.<\/p>\n

4.70 kg RDX, one Chinese pistol, two magazines, 22 rounds, two timers, six detonators, among others, were seized from two packets dropped by the drone, an official statement by the BSF official said.<\/p>\n

It said alert forward troops in the Panjgrain area heard a buzzing sound of a suspected flying object coming from Pakistan to India around 1 a.m. The BSF troops subsequently fired upon the drone. An Indian currency of Rs 1 lakh was also recovered from one of the packets.<\/p>\n

It is suspected that the drone dropped both the packets. During the search in the area of Ghaggar and Singhoke villages by the BSF along with a dog and a handler, two packets of yellow colour with suspected contraband were recovered. The spot is approximately 2,700 metres away from the International Border. BSF foil drone smuggling attempt of RDX in Punjab.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Border Security Force (BSF) on early morning of Wednesday foiled an attempt to smuggle weapons, ammunition, detonators and approximately 5 kg RDX through drone dropping close to the India-Pakistan border in Amritsar district. 4.70 kg RDX, one Chinese pistol, two magazines, 22 rounds, two timers, six detonators, among others, were seized from two packets dropped […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":335628,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[36,14977],"tags":[8820,15100,151],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/335627"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/users\/59"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=335627"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/335627\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":335629,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/335627\/revisions\/335629"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/335628"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=335627"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=335627"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=335627"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}