According to sources the downed IAF pilot captured by Pakistan and identified by the country as Wing Commander Abhinandan tried to swallow documents and maps he had with him, also soaking some of them in water before being caught and roughed up by an angry mob. Meanwhile myriad videos and pictures have gone viral on social media where the IAF pilot is seen being captured and held captive by Pakistani villagers before handing him over to the Pakistani army.
As per report in the early morning on Wednesday a local in Horra'n village (barely 7 kms from the LoC) in Bhimber district of PoK heard a commotion in the air and realized two air crafts had caught fire. Meanwhile one of them sped across the LoC, the other burst into flames and came down swiftly and the local saw a parachute descending on the ground and a pilot emerging out of it. Furthermore upon seeing the pilot, the local called other people out from his village, asking them to get hold of the pilot until the army personnel arrived.
Reportedly the IAF commander who was equipped with a pistol asked the villagers whether it was India or Pakistan, to which one of them replied that it was India. Moreover the pilot asked the villagers for some water to drink as his "back was broken" and a youth among the people surrounding the pilot could not hold his emotions to the pilot's slogans and started shouting "Pakistan army zindabad". Moreover the army personnel reached at the spot and took the IAF officer in their custody while shielding him from the angry mob, and the pilot was then taken in a convoy of military vehicles to a Pakistani army installation in Bhimber.
