Iraqi border guards shoot down parasail in drug bust
The operator may have fled to Kuwait as Iraq’s drug war rages on.
Iraqi border guards reported shooting down a flying vehicle today that they said was being used to smuggle drugs.
The Iraqi Security Media Cell reported June 3 that a pilot was flying the makeshift vehicle near Jirishan in the southern Basra province. The border guards opened fire, forcing the pilot to land and flee to “one of the neighboring countries.” They recovered one million pills of an unspecified drug during the incident. The search for the pilot is ongoing, the outlet said in a series of tweets.
The vehicle has three wheels and resembles a homemade parasail, with a propeller and a parachute in photos released by the Security Media Cell.
Jirishan is close to Kuwait and Basra also borders Iran.
