11 hand grenades have been seized by the Security forces. A senior official on Monday said that the grenades suspected to have been dropped by a drone flying in from across the Pakistan border into Punjab’s Gurdaspur district.
Border Security Force (BSF) soldiers fired at a Pakistani drone spotted on the Indian side of the border in Punjab on Saturday night. The seized grenades are suspected to have been manufactured by a factory in Pakistan’s Rawalpindi. A senior police official said, "The consignment of Arges Type HG-84 series grenades, packed in a plastic box, is the eight instance of seizure of firearms and grenades smuggled into the country for terrorists from across the border in the last 15 months." Few weeks ago, intelligence agencies alerted that cautioned security personnel about Pakistan’s Inter-Services Intelligence’s moves to acquire upgraded versions of drones from China that can carry large quantities of firearms in every sortie.
The seized grenades Arges HG-84 is an anti-personnel fragmentation grenade. These grenades have been used in major attacks in India including the 2008 Mumbai strike, the 1993 Mumbai blasts and the 2001 Parliament attack. The Wah Cantonment Ordnance factory in Rawalpindi earlier had a franchise to manufacture the high-explosive grenades.
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