DHAKA: South Korea says it is analysing what it believes to be a North Korean drone that crashed on a border island shortly after an exchange of artillery fire with North Korea.

The drone crashed on Baengnyeong island on Monday afternoon.

It fell as the two Koreas traded fire into each other`s waters in an incident Seoul says was provoked by the North.

South Korean authorities say a preliminary investigation has concluded that the drone came from the North.

‘The relevant departments of the South Korean government have confirmed that North Korea is responsible for it,’ said South Korea’s Unification Ministry spokesman Park Soo-jin, reports the BBC.

A similar drone was found in Paju, just south of the demilitarised zone that separates the two Koreas, on 24 March, Yonhap news agency reported.

It was equipped with a high-resolution camera and had taken pictures of military installations and South Korea’s presidential compound, the agency said.

BDST: 1851 HRS, APR 02, 2014