The Kinmen County Government on Saturday urged Chinese authorities to stop its citizens from flying civilian drones and dropping flyers or other unidentified objects on the Taiwanese islands.
The Kinmen government in a news release condemned the drone operators carrying out such actions and said it has asked the local police to investigate the case.
Its statement comes after a Chinese TikTok channel livestreamed two days in a row videos of a drone allegedly intruding into Kinmen airspace and dropping unidentified objects, including leaflets, in the island’s Mashan (馬山) area.
Photo: Wu Cheng-ting, Taipei Times
Such actions not only could cause injury to people on the ground, but also seriously endanger aviation safety, the Kinmen government said, urging Chinese authorities to stop its citizens from engaging in such behavior.
The local police on Friday afternoon spotted a drone flying over the county’s police bureau, but when officers were about to use jamming guns to bring it down, the drone flew in the direction of Siaosimen (小西門) and Houhu (后湖), the Kinmen government said.
Some Internet users, who claimed to be from Kinmen, on social media platforms slammed the action, urging those involved “not to arbitrarily throw away trash.”
Separately on Saturday, the Kinmen Defense Command said it is closely monitoring the situation and the military is ready to carry out necessary countermeasures in accordance with standard operating procedures.
Meanwhile, the military reviewed the videos and found that the Chinese drone did not fly near a military base on Friday, the command said.
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