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Thursday, June 12, 2014

Unmanned war resumes: Six killed in year's first drone strike

MQ-9 ReaperThe US carried out the first drone strike in Pakistan this year on Wednesday, killing at least six militants in North Waziristan, where pressure was building on Islamabad to react after a brazen attack on Karachi airport.

According to a local security forces official, the US drone launched two missiles at a vehicle and compound in Dargah Mandi village in North Waziristan Agency’s Ghulam Khan tehsil, around 10 kilometres west of agency headquarters Miramshah. The incident took place around 9:00pm, he said.

Six suspected militants were killed, four of whom were said to be of foreign descent. “Four of them were Uzbeks and two were Punjabi Taliban,” said an intelligence official in Miramshah.

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