US drone strike kills 10 in Pakistan

About ten people were killed and two others injured in US drone attack in northwest Pakistan.

The two missiles were fired by US drone hitting Markaz of Afghan commander Ahmad Haqqani, son of Jalaluddin Haqqani, in Dandi Derpakhel area of North Waziristan on Thursday night.The area is said to be a stronghold Jalaluddin Haqqani who was a minister in the Taliban government of Afghanistan.

Security officials said it was not yet clear whether any high-value targets were present at the time of attack in the Dandy Darpa Khel area of North Waziristan.The compound hit by the US spy plane was said to be the house of Afghan national Ahmad Afghani.

There were unconfirmed reports that one of the sons of Jalaluddin Haqqani, a former anti-Soviet fighter in Afghanistan, is called Ahmad.

Pakistani investigators were on Friday trying to identify at least 10 militants killed in a US missile attack in the tribal belt, officials said.

'We are collecting information about the identity of all those killed in the attack,' a senior security official in the area said.'We believe that all the 10 men killed in the strike were Afghans as the compound belonged to the Haqqani network,' he added.

It was the fourth missile strike this month in North Waziristan.

-AsianTribune