Drone strike kills 5 in N Waziristan

Two missiles fired at vehicle, destroying it and killing five.


Express August 22, 2011

NORTH WAZIRISTAN: A drone strike in the Norak area of North Waziristan killed five people on Monday.

According to sources, the drone targeted a vehicle in the Norak area of Miranshah where in two missiles were fired, killing five people as well as destroying the vehicle.

Earlier a US drone strike in a restive Pakistani tribal area on Friday had killed at least four suspected militants, local security officials said.

The unmanned aircraft fired two missiles, hitting a house in the Shin Warsak area of South Waziristan, a tribal district, wounding two other people, security officials had told AFP.

(Read: US drone attack kills 4 in S Waziristan)

Pakistan has repeatedly lodged several protests with the United States over the drone strikes, calling it a 'core irritant' in the ties between the two countries, and that such attacks are counter-productive and only strengthen the hands of the terrorists.

COMMENTS (5)

Imran | 12 years ago | Reply

The usa think they are winning a war that is just growing.. bigger and bigger the so called terrorists are being killed wat they dont learn is that they are growing by much greater numbers becouse off these attacks.. the time is near too a end all off this.. a leader is coming to rise from all this.. this silent war will be the killer to the americans they will see..

PJ Meer | 12 years ago | Reply

Inna lillahi wa inna ilayhi raji'un

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