The Pakistan Army has claimed that it shot down an Indian spy drone in Chirikot sector along the Line of Control (LoC) in Kashmir after it entered its airspace. The Pakistan military in a statement overnight also said its troops retrieved the wreckage.
“Pakistan Army troops shot down an Indian spy drone while it violated the LoC in Chirikot sector,” it alleged. “This is 4th drone which has been shot down by Pakistan Army troops in last one year,” it claimed.
In 2015, data retrieved from a spy drone shot down near the LOC by Pakistani forces had provided irrefutable evidence that it was flown by the Indian Army.
The two sides also often trade fire there and have fought two wars over it since their independence from British rule in 1947.
