Suspected US drone strike kills seven in South Waziristan
WANA: A suspected US missile strike killed seven militants, including al-Qaeda fighters, in northwest Pakistan's South Waziristan tribal region on Wednesday, security officials said.
A senior official said the strike hit a compound in the Makeen area, where suspected Afghan and Pakistani Taliban militants are holed up, but local residents said two vehicles were targeted.
Security officials said seven militants were killed.
'A predator strike was carried out in Makeen area, 12 kilometres northwest of Ladha,' one security official told AFP on condition of anonymity.
The official said the dead were 'foreigners' — a term used to describe al-Qaeda fighters.
'Two missiles killed at least six militants, including Uzbeks and Arabs,' a tribal security official, Haq Nawaz, told AFP.
More than 35 such strikes have killed over 340 people since August 2008, shortly before President Asif Ali Zardari was elected.
Wednesday's attack was the seventh missile strike blamed in Pakistan on unmanned US aircraft since President Barack Obama came to power.
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