August 11, 2009
Report: U.S. missile strike kills 10 militants in NW Pakistan
There has been a missile strike on another compound in South Waziristan looks to be a hit on a training camp.
PESHAWAR, Pakistan (Reuters) - A missile attack believed to have been launched by U.S. drone aircraft killed at least 10 militants in South Waziristan, the area where Pakistani Taliban leader Baitullah Mehsud is said to have been killed last week, intelligence officials and residents said.The missiles targeted a training camp near the village of Ladda, in the heart of the Mehsud tribe's territory, the officials said.
Hamdullah Mehsud, a resident, said three missiles were fired into the sprawling house of a villager used as a training camp by the militants.
"So far, eight bodies have been pulled out of the rubble," he told Reuters. Five people were wounded, he added.
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