Yogesh Sagotra
Jammu, June 28:
Two drones were spotted at Kaluchak Military station in Jammu on the intervening night of June 27-28. One Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) was seen flying inside the Army base at 11:45 pm and another at 2:40 am. The UAVs were spotted on a stretch of the Kaluchak-Purmandal road on the Jammu Pathankot national highway. Alert Army jawans fired at the drones to neutralise them but both the drones flew away.
“On midnight of 27-28 June 2021, two separate drone activities were spotted over Ratnuchak- Kaluchak Military area by alert troops,” Jammu based defence spokesperson Lt Col Devender Anand confirmed.
Col Anand said that the first drone was spotted at around 11.45 hours on 27 June 2021 and the second drone was noticed in the vicinity at around 2.40 hours on 28 June 2021.
“Immediately, high alert was sounded and Quick Reaction Teams engaged them with firing,” he added.
Police sources said that a major threat thwarted by the alertness and proactive approach of troops.
“The army personnel fired around 20-25 rounds at the drones before they escaped under the cover of darkness,” sources added.
A large-scale search is underway inside the Kaluchak military station to locate the two drones. A high alert has been sounded in the Jammu area, particularly in Army stations. The incident comes a day after the drone strike on the Air Force Station Jammu.
In a first of its kind attack, drones were used to drop explosives into the high security technical area of the Jammu airport.
Two blasts took place in the early hours of Sunday; one ripped a hole in the roof of a building, while the other explosion was on the ground in an open space. The Jammu and Kashmir Police and the National Investigation Agency (NIA) are probing the terror.