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A US pilot-less aircraft fired two missiles at a compound in the Shenkai Narai area of Tehsil Shawal, killing six suspected militants, a security official told The Express Tribune. The attack triggered a huge fire in the compound and the fatalities were completely charred, he added.
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Local tribesmen rushed to the site and pulled out the bodies from the rubble of the destroyed compound while a drone continued to hover overhead.
On July 14, two foreign militants were killed when a US drone fired missiles on a motorcycle in the Mosaki area of Mirali Tehsil of North Waziristan Agency. Similarly, 17 suspected militants, including two al-Qaeda operatives and two Punjabi Taliban fighters, were killed in a drone attack on July 3. It was the deadliest drone strike since the PML-N government took over after its convincing victory in the May 11 elections.
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On June 7, seven suspected militants were killed and three injured when a US remotely-piloted aircraft targeted a compound in Shawal tehsil of North Waziristan Agency.
Published in The Express Tribune, July 29th, 2013.
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