Days after hexacopter shot down by cops, UAVs spotted in Akhnoor and Samba

JAMMU: The police launched a search operation on Friday after locals spotted an unidentified aerial vehicle (UAV) near a village in Akhnoor, on the outskirts of Jammu city. A drone with blinking light was also spotted thrice at different locations in Samba district on Thursday night.
The incidents come after almost a week after Jammu and Kashmir Police claimed to have achieved major success by foiling a terror plot executed by Jaish-e-Mohammad (JeM) by shooting down a hexacopter carrying an improvised explosive device weighing 5 kg near international border in Akhnoor’s Kanachak area.
The villagers had spotted a blinking light on Thursday night and informed the police. “As per locals, the blinking light, probably a drone, was spotted near Bhalwal in Pargwal village close to the international border in Akhnoor,” the police said.
The police immediately swung into action and launched a search operation but found nothing. The searches were also carried out on Friday morning at the location identified by the villagers.
Samba senior superintendent of police (SSP) Rajesh Sharma said a suspicious flying object, possibly a drone with blinking white light, was spotted at three locations in Samba. “Activities were reported near Army camp in Bari Brahmana, Sandi village near ITBP camp, Ghagwal and border area village Chalarian Samba.”
Border Security Force (BSF) personnel fired a couple of rounds towards a drone hovering in Chalarian before it returned to the Pakistani side, the police said.