India News | IAF Initiates Inquiryin Drone Crash in Punjab's Gurdaspur
Get latest articles and stories on India at LatestLY. Indian Air Force on Wednesday initiated an inquiry after a drone crashed in Gurdaspur's Malogil village on Tuesday due to a technical snag. The officials are figuring out the cause which led to such an incident.
Gurdaspur (Punjab) [India], August 11 (ANI): Indian Air Force on Wednesday initiated an inquiry after a drone crashed in Gurdaspur's Malogil village on Tuesday due to a technical snag. The officials are figuring out the cause which led to such an incident.
"A remotely piloted vehicle of the Indian Air Force developed a technical snag while flying in Gurdaspur district of Punjab and carried out a precautionary landing. An inquiry has been ordered to ascertain the cause," said IAF.
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Earlier on Tuesday, Punjab Chief Minister Captain Amarinder Singh met Union Home Minister Amit Shah to seek 25 companies of Central Armed Police Forces (CAPF) and anti-drone gadgets for Border Security Force (BSF) for protection from Pakistan-backed terror forces.
This information pours in after a high alert was sounded in Punjab on Monday after police recovered a tiffin box fabricated into an improvised explosive device (IED) from a village in Amritsar, which they suspect was part of a consignment dropped by a drone from Pakistan. (ANI)
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