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US drone crashed in South Waziristan: ISPR

by hussain | September 23, 2008 at 11:59 pm

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Pakistani military on Wednesday confirmed that a US drone had crashed in the country's tribal region last evening, however, it did not confirm whether it was shot down or crashed because of malfunctioning.

Pakistan army on Wendesday confirmed that US spy plane had crashed in Angoor Adda area on Tuesday night.

In a statement issued today, ISPR said U-S predator drone has crashed in Angoor Adda area of South.

The ISPR said that plane crashed apparently due to mal-functioning. The wreckage of UAV has been recovered from the site by the Security Forces personnel and the matter is under detailed investigation.

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Sanjay Jha

at 00:13 on September 24th, 2008

Pakistani military has ordered an inquiry into the crash of a US spy Drones. The tribals living in that have cliamed to shot down the plane.

Pakistan's army said Wednesday that it was investigating the crash of a suspected unmanned US spy plane amid claims by tribesmen they had shot it down near the Afghan border.

Separately Pakistani air strikes on a militant tunnel network in another frontier tribal region killed 20 Taliban, as military operations continued in the wake of the deadly weekend bombing of a top Islamabad hotel.

The drone crash late Tuesday in the South Waziristan tribal zone, a haven for Al-qaeda and Taliban militants, came as tensions grew between Washington and Islamabad over US missile strikes and incursions on Pakistani soil.