India, March 18 -- Seven foreign nationals - six Ukrainian citizens and one US national - have been arrested in India for allegedly plotting terror activities using drones supplied from Europe. The accused reportedly entered India on tourist visas and travelled to Mizoram without the mandatory Restricted Area Permit (RAP) before crossing into Myanmar, where they allegedly met ethnic armed groups and delivered multiple consignments of drones.

The six Ukrainians have been identified as Hurba Petro, Slyviak Taras, Ivan Sukmanovskyi, Stefankiv Marian, Honcharuk Maksim, and Kaminskyi Viktor. The US national involved has been named as Matthew Aaron Van Dyke.

A spokesperson for the US embassy said, "We are aware of the situation. For privacy r...