An armed unmanned aerial vehicle loaded with munitions crash-landed on Kapisuyu Beach in the Kurucashile district of Bartin province in Turkiye on Sunday.

Axar.az reports, citing Turkish media, gendarmerie units evacuated the area and established a security perimeter along the stretch of coastline straddling the Bartin–Kastamonu provincial border.

Specialist ordnance disposal teams were dispatched to the scene to carry out a controlled destruction of the munitions aboard the aircraft.

The origin of the drone has not been confirmed, though local reports suggest it is believed to be one of the armed unmanned systems that fell into the Black Sea during the ongoing war between Russia and Ukraine.