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Drone Strike Kills at Least 5 Suspected Militants in Pakistan: Official
14:01 20.12.2014(updated 14:11 20.12.2014)
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senior Pakistani security official speaking on anonymity confirmed that five
militants had been killed and said the death toll could rise.
MOSCOW, December 20 (Sputnik) — At
least five have been killed in the North Waziristan region
of Pakistan by a US drone strike Saturday targeting a compound used
by suspected militants, a security official reported.
A
senior Pakistani security official speaking on anonymity confirmed that
five militants had been killed and said the death toll could rise,
as reported by Afghan’s Khaama Press.
North Waziristan is one of the
conflict-prone Pakistan-Afghan border regions considered a hub
for al-Qaeda and Taliban militants.
According
to the news agency, some eight other militants were killed in drone
strikes in the same region in November. The United States aims
to get rid of the militants' hubs in the region used
to plan and carry out attacks on NATO forces
in Afghanistan.
The
drone strike also comes in light of a Taliban attack on a Pakistani
army school on Tuesday which left over 130 children dead in the
city of Peshawar close to the Afghan border.
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