US drone kills 14 militants in the tribal area of Pakistan

In the series of drone attacks,at least 14 more suspected militants have been killed when a US drone attacked on a Taliban training centre in northwestern Pakistan, local people said Friday.
More than 40 people were also injured in the late Thursday attack in Barjo village of the Kurram Agency,sources added.
'The drone fired two Hellfire missiles on a house where a number of militants were told residing. Most of the victims were local tribal, Afghan Taliban and foreign militants,' an official in Sadda, the headquarters of Kurram agency, said on condition of anonymity.
Witnesses also said that three US spy planes were seen flying over the region at the time of the attack and continued flying for several hours after the attack.
Meanwhile,  the Taliban told media that none of their important commanders was present in the house at the time of the attack and all of them are safe and sound.
'Dozens of militants cordoned off the area just after the house was struck by missiles and started retrieving the bodies,' another source told the media. 'The bodies of most of the victims were told to have mutilated and were beyond recognition,' he added.
It was  the second drone attack in Kurram tribal region in recent days. On February 16, 30 people, mostly militants, were killed and several others injured in a drone attack.
US forces have beenexpressing thier concern on Pakistan's failure to eliminate militant hideouts and they have never hissetated  to carry out about 36 such attacks in the past four months, killing dozens of Taliban and suspected Al Qaeda militants.
Pakistan, a key ally of US in its war on terror, has been protesting against the air strikes, saying they violate the country's sovereignty and fuel public anger.They say these attacks did not help in the war on terror.