Army troops fire at suspected Pak drone along LoC in J&K's Poonch

JAMMU: Army troops opened occurrence astatine a suspected Pakistani drone hovering implicit Indian territory on the Line of Control (LoC) successful J&K’s Poonch territory precocious Monday. The unmanned aerial conveyance returned towards Pakistan-occupied Kashmir aft immoderate time, officials said.“Around 10pm, alert unit spotted the drone supra immoderate guardant Indian posts on the LoC successful the Area of Responsibility of the Army’s 22 JAK Rifles successful Pajani area, successful Balakote of Mendhar sector,” an authoritative said Tuesday.Troops fired astir 9 rounds astatine the UAV but failed to deed the people arsenic the drone was moving astatine a sizeable height. It aboriginal returned to the PoK side.“Security forces launched a hunt cognition aboriginal Tuesday to found whether the drone had air-dropped immoderate suspicious consignments during its formation implicit the area. Nothing arsenic specified was recovered connected the ground,” the authoritative said.