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PAKISTAN - 16 MAY 2011
MIRANSHAH, Pakistan – Two US drone strikes targeting a militant compound and a vehicle in Pakistan's lawless tribal district of North Waziristan killed at least nine people on Monday, officials said.
Both the attacks took place in Mir Ali town, some 40 kilometres (25 miles) east of Miranshah, a stronghold of Taliban and Al-Qaeda-linked militants and the main town in North Waziristan tribal district along the Afghan border.
Two US drones fired two missiles into a militant compound, and minutes later another drone fired two missiles at a vehicle nearby, officials said.
A senior security official in Peshawar said that at least nine militants were killed and another two wounded.
"In the first strike, two missiles destroyed the compound and killed six militants. The second attack killed three more militants travelling in a car," the official told AFP on condition of anonymity.
A security official in Miranshah confirmed the strike, saying earlier that at least seven people had been killed.
"The vehicle was completely burnt and the compound was also destroyed," he told AFP.
It was not clear whether the drones were pursuing any "high-value target" but two intelligence officials in Miranshah said they had received reports from informers on the ground that those killed in the compound were all foreigners.
"We don't know their exact identities but we were informed that there were foreigners inside that compound," one intelligence official told AFP.
Monday's attacks were the fifth and sixth to be reported in Pakistan's tribal areas near the Afghan border since US commandos killed Osama bin Laden in a secret raid in the Pakistani city of Abbottabad on May 2.
File Photo: U.S MQ-9 Reaper Hunter/Killer Drone
Source: AFP
MIRANSHAH, Pakistan – Two US drone strikes targeting a militant compound and a vehicle in Pakistan's lawless tribal district of North Waziristan killed at least nine people on Monday, officials said.
Both the attacks took place in Mir Ali town, some 40 kilometres (25 miles) east of Miranshah, a stronghold of Taliban and Al-Qaeda-linked militants and the main town in North Waziristan tribal district along the Afghan border.
Two US drones fired two missiles into a militant compound, and minutes later another drone fired two missiles at a vehicle nearby, officials said.
A senior security official in Peshawar said that at least nine militants were killed and another two wounded.
"In the first strike, two missiles destroyed the compound and killed six militants. The second attack killed three more militants travelling in a car," the official told AFP on condition of anonymity.
A security official in Miranshah confirmed the strike, saying earlier that at least seven people had been killed.
"The vehicle was completely burnt and the compound was also destroyed," he told AFP.
It was not clear whether the drones were pursuing any "high-value target" but two intelligence officials in Miranshah said they had received reports from informers on the ground that those killed in the compound were all foreigners.
"We don't know their exact identities but we were informed that there were foreigners inside that compound," one intelligence official told AFP.
Monday's attacks were the fifth and sixth to be reported in Pakistan's tribal areas near the Afghan border since US commandos killed Osama bin Laden in a secret raid in the Pakistani city of Abbottabad on May 2.
File Photo: U.S MQ-9 Reaper Hunter/Killer Drone
Source: AFP