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MIRAMSHAH, Sept 5: Three children and two women were killed when US-led allied forces in Afghanistan attacked an area in North Waziristan on Friday.

Sources said a US spy plane fired three missiles on a house in Gorewek near the Afghan border, some 60 kilometres west of Miramshah.

The house was completely destroyed and three children and two women were killed.

This was the third attack by the US-led forces inside Pakistan in three days.

On Thursday, at least five militants were killed when a missile fired from an unmanned plane hit a house in Mohammad Khel village.

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