BSF shoots drone, seizes 2 kg heroin worth Rs 10 cr

Sri Ganganagar: The BSF troop shot down a drone carrying two kg of heroin worth `10 crore near the Indo-Pak border in Sri Ganganagar district, officials said on Saturday.

The BSF jawans, during patrolling on Friday night, heard a drone flying in the Gharsana border area of the district. They fired indiscriminately at the drone and it crashed, BSF DIG Pushpendra Singh Rathore said on Saturday. Two packets of heroin recovered, he said. Rathore said the smugglers had come to receive the parcel in night and managed to escape in the dark.