PESHAWAR: Ten more militants were killed and two others sustained injuries in two separate US drone attacks on Hamzoni and Mezar villages in North Waziristan on Wednesday.
Official and tribal sources said the CIA-operated drones first fired three missiles at a car reportedly carrying some militants from the Hamzoni village to the nearby Khattey Killay. The sources said there were, in fact, two cars on way to Khattey Killay village carrying militants but the driver of the first car sped away.
According to sources in Hamzoni village, located 10 kilometres west of Miramshah town, two missiles missed the target and the third one hit the second car and killed four suspected militants.
Taliban sources said the four militants belonged to the Mehsud tribe in South Waziristan and were affiliated with the Hakimullah Mehsud-led Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP). Only one militant, identified as Khalid, was said to have survived, but he was seriously injured and admitted to a private medical centre in Miramshah, the principal town of North Waziristan.
In another attack by the US spy planes, a double-cabin pickup truck was targeted in Mezar village of Dattakhel Tehsil not far from the Urgoon area of Afghanistan’s Paktika province. Official sources said six militants, suspected to be foreigners, were killed in the attack.“The pickup truck was split into pieces and there was almost no sign of the five people travelling in the vehicle,” Taliban sources told our sources.
The sources said those killed were Arab fighters returning to their hideouts located in the mountainous border areas between Pakistan and Afghanistan after a clash with the US-led coalition forces across the border in Paktika. However, details about their nationality and identity weren’t available.
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