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US drone strike kills 4 militants in Pakistan

Islamabad, May 26: A US drone targeted a house in the lawless North Waziristan tribal region of Pakistan today, killing four suspected militants in the third such attack in four days.The CIA-operated spy plane fired

PTI Published : May 26, 2012 14:35 IST, Updated : May 26, 2012 14:36 IST
us drone strike kills 4 militants in pakistan
us drone strike kills 4 militants in pakistan

Islamabad, May 26: A US drone targeted a house in the lawless North Waziristan tribal region of Pakistan today, killing four suspected militants in the third such attack in four days.




The CIA-operated spy plane fired two missiles at the house near Miranshah, the main town of North Waziristan Agency, which has been described by US officials as a stronghold of Taliban and Al Qaeda elements.  

Security officials and local residents were quoted by the media as saying that four suspected militants were killed in the attack.

The identity of those killed could not immediately be ascertained.

The house caught fire after being hit by the missiles and militants cordoned off the site and prevented people from approaching the area.

On May 23, four suspected militants were killed in a drone strike near Miranshah, while 10 suspected militants were killed in a missile attack in the same region the following day.

The string of drone strikes have added to tensions between the US and Pakistan, which has been calling for an end to the attacks.

The strikes came days after President Asif Ali Zardari left the NATO Summit in Chicago without announcing any move to reopen supply lines for foreign forces in Afghanistan.

Pakistan closed the supply routes after a cross-border NATO air strike from Afghanistan killed 24 of its soldiers in November.
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