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India Says It Shot Down Pakistani Drone
India claimed its forces shot down an unmanned Pakistani spy plane Wednesday in troubled Kashmir, and Pakistan said the plane was an experimental remote-control flight that crashed because of engine failure. Bullet holes will do thatIndia said the plane crashed on the Indian side of the Line of Control dividing the Himalayan province between the nuclear rivals. Each side stations hundreds of thousands of troops there, and border skirmishes are frequent. An Indian army spokesman, Bhanwar Rathore, said anti-aircraft guns shot down the plane and that debris was found in the Mendhar sector, nearly 370 yards inside Indian-controlled Kashmir. The area is 125 miles north of Jammu, the winter capital of the Indian state of Jammu-Kashmir. A Pakistan government statement from Islamabad said an experimental army remote-piloted vehicle crashed near the Line of Control but that search parties had not found the wreckage. Pakistan says Indian remote-piloted planes come into its territory 200 times a year. Pakistan claimed to have shot down an unmanned Indian spy plane in its side of Kashmir last week. Which the Indians say didn't happen, either Posted by: Steve 2003-02-05 |
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