ISLAMABAD, Aug 1: A drone strike in Pakistan this week killed three Al Qaeda operatives who ran a training camp in Afghanistan to prepare militants for attacks including the recent jailbreak in Dera Ismail Khan, a Taliban commander has said.

About 30 militants and more than 200 other inmates escaped from the Dera Ismail Khan jail after a squad of highly trained Taliban fighters armed with grenade launchers and dressed as police overran the facility on Monday night.

A day earlier, a US drone strike killed at least six militants in North Waziristan, according to local security officials.

The commander with the Pakistani Taliban said those killed in the strike included three Al Qaeda training experts who had crossed the border from Afghanistan to look at ways of setting up a similar camp on Pakistani territory.

The Taliban source identified the three as Abu Rashid from Saudi Arabia, Muhammed Ilyas Kuwaiti from Kuwait and Muhammed Sajid Yamani from Yemen.—Reuters