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At least 15 dead as US missiles strike Pakistan
AFP - Saturday, January 24
PESHAWAR, Pakistan (AFP) - - At least seven people were killed, most of them foreigners, in a suspected US missile strike in northwest Pakistan, bringing to 15 the number killed in such attacks on Friday, officials said.
"At least seven people were killed, dozens wounded. The majority of those killed were foreigners," said local and security officials employing a term usually used to refer to Al-Qaeda militants.
"Two missiles fired by a suspected US drone hit a house in Wana," a senior security official told AFP, referring to the main town in South Waziristan district and a known hub of Taliban and Al-Qaeda extremists.
It was the second suspected US missile attack in northwest Pakistan on Friday, just hours after eight people were killed in North Waziristan.
Friday's suspected US missile strikes were the first since US President Barack Obama took office in Washington and came one day after he appointed veteran diplomat Richard Holbrooke special envoy for Afghanistan and Pakistan.
Soon after the blast in the Gangikhel neighbourhood of western Wana, electricity supplies went down and the area plunged into darkness, local officials said.
Taliban militants immediately surrounded the site of the attack and barred locals from venturing close.
Wana, a known Taliban and Al Qaeda hub, is also the main stomping ground of Maulvi Nazir, a key Taliban commander accused by the United States of recruiting and sending fighters to Afghanistan to attack US and NATO forces.
Local officials said the target was a guest house owned by a local pro-Taliban tribesman.
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Pakistani paramilitary soldiers patrol in the lawless area of Dara Adam Khel, in the northwest frontier province near Peshawar last year. At least seven people were killed, most of them foreigners, in a suspected US missile strike in northwest Pakistan, bringing to 15 the number killed in such attacks on the same day, officials have said.
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