A US drone strike early Thursday killed at least six militants in Pakistan’s northwestern tribal belt near the Afghan border, security officials said.
The latest strike hit North Waziristan, the same tribal district targeted in three other drone attacks in the past 24 hours and a renowned hub for Taliban and al Qaeda-linked militants, AFP reported.
A total of 24 militants were killed in the four strikes.
The target of the fourth drone attack was a compound in the outskirts of Miranshah, the main town in North Waziristan. “Militants have dug out six dead bodies, five people were critically wounded,” a local resident told AFP, requesting anonymity.
“They are still digging the rubble, two nearby houses were also damaged,” he added. Intelligence officials said they were trying to find out the nationalities of the militants killed, but they had no reports about the presence of any high-value target.
“An informer told us there were some Afghan Taliban among the dead but we are investigating,” one intelligence official in Miranshah told AFP.
Two intelligence officials in Miranshah also confirmed the attack and the death toll.
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