Pak drone shot down by BSF women constables in Amritsar
Amritsar, Nov 29: A women squad of the Border Security Force has foiled a cross-border drug-smuggling attempt in Punjab's Amritsar district by shooting down a drone, which was entering India from Pakistan with 3.1 kg of narcotics, officials said on Tuesday.
The troops noticed that the drone was entering the Indian territory near Chaharpur village, around 40 km north of Amritsar city, on Monday night, according to officials.
Two female constables of the 73 battalion fired 25 rounds at the drone and brought it down at 11.05 pm. During a search operation, the BSF recovered a partially-damaged hexacopter, an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) with six rotors.
The drone, weighing 18 kg, was carrying 3.11 kg of narcotics, which was wrapped in a white polythene that was attached underneath it, the BSF said.
"Alert troops of BSF once again were able to capture a drone and foil a smuggling attempt. The drone was shot down by women personnel," a spokesperson for the force said.
Another drone was spotted near the Vadai Cheema border outpost at 10.57 pm on Monday, an official said.
After the BSF troops opened fire at the UAV, it went back to Pakistan.
Last Friday, the BSF troops had also shot down a Pakistani drone near the international border in Amritsar.
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Attack targeting Turkish defence company leaves 4 dead, 14 wounded
Ankara, Oct 23: Assailants set off explosives and opened fire in an attack on Wednesday on the premises of the Turkish state-run aerospace and defense company TUSAS, killing four people and wounding several, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said.
At least two of the attackers died, Interior Minister Ali Yerlikaya said.
“We have four martyrs. We have 14 wounded. I condemn this heinous terrorist attack and wish mercy on our martyrs,” Erdogan said during a meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin in the sidelines of a BRICS meeting in Kazan, Russia.
Putin offered him condolences over the attack.
Selim Cirpanoglu, mayor of the district of Kahramankazan, told The Associated Press that the attack on the company in the outskirts of the capital, Ankara, had abated but could not provide more details.
It was not clear who may be behind it.
Security camera images from the attack, aired on television, showed a man in plainclothes carrying a backpack and holding an assault rifle.
Turkish media said three assailants, including a woman, arrived at an entry to the complex inside a taxi. The assailants, who were carrying assault weapons, then detonated an explosive device next to the taxi, causing panic and allowing them to enter the complex.
Multiple gunshots were heard after Turkish security forces entered the site, the DHA news agency and other media reported. Helicopters were seen flying above the premises.
TUSAS designs, manufactures and assembles both civilian and military aircrafts, unmanned aerial vehicles and other defense industry and space systems. The UAVs have been instrumental in Turkiye gaining an upper hand in its fight against Kurdish group in Turkiye and across the border in Iraq.
Vice President Cevdet Yilmaz said the target of the attack was Turkiye's “success in the defence industry”.
“It should be known that these attacks will not be able to deter the heroic employees of defence industry,” he wrote on X.
