US Drone Attack Kills 18 in Pakistan

A US drone has carried an attack in Waziristan tribal region killing some 18 people. Reports said that drone has fired several missiles. A day earlier terrorists have carried out a suicide attack in Bajaur Agency, tribal areas killing over 50 people.

"A US drone strike in Pakistan’s northwestern tribal belt killed 15 militants on Monday, destroying a vehicle and a compound in North Waziristan, local security officials said.

The strike took place in Mir Ali village, 25 kilometres east of Miramshah, the main town of the North Waziristan tribal district, Pakistan’s premier fortress of al-Qaeda-linked militants near the Afghan border.

“At least 15 militants were killed in a US missile strike, which targeted a vehicle and a compound,” a senior Pakistani security official told AFP.

“Four missiles hit the vehicle and two struck the compound,” he added.

The identities of the dead were not immediately clear, but officials believed that most of them were Pakistani, rather than Afghan or Arab fighters."

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