According to sources, the drone fired two missiles at a vehicle in Laman village near the Pakistan-Afghanistan border.
"A US drone fired two missiles at a vehicle and killed at least four militants and one was wounded," a senior security official told AFP.
The official said that the drone strike took place before midnight and added that there were "foreigners" among those killed.
A local government official confirmed the casualties.
This is the fifth drone strike in five days.
Previous drone strikes
In early hours of October 7, drones had fired two missiles at a compound at Kund Ghar area of Shawal and killed at least six while injuring nine persons. In the same area, US drone had targeted another compound of suspected militants at afternoon and eliminated at least eight more lives on the spot.
On October 6, a drone targeted another compound and a vehicle at the Mangronay area of Shawal and killed five persons while destroying the vehicle and the house.
At least five people were killed and two others were injured in a drone strike in North Waziristan's Shawal area on October 5.
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war of terror.
In principle I am for the drone attacks. But where are the hypocritical PMLN leaders who used to say during PPP's tenure that they would stop the attacks, and who claimed they had stopped the attacks following the botched US visit by our lateefa Prime Minister.
What are these drones doing at operation zarb-e-azb, I thought we were handling it just fine?
its funny to see when drones attack, victims are civilians, when paki army, airforce attacks, hundreds of victims are militants
why not blame imran khan for this,too?
Pakistan is attacked on the eastern as well as western borders. More people are being killed on our western borders but we are afraid of US-Afghan alliance so we don't fight back. Meanwhile looks like India is creating a diversionary tactic on the Eastern borders to economically isolate Pakistan. Pakistani army as usual doesn't want to respond to drones for obvious reasons.
This is a one sided war.