LADHA, Aug 1: Four militants were killed and two others injured when a US drone targeted a car in Nargosa area of South Waziristan on Monday, sources said.

Two missiles fired by the unmanned aircraft hit the moving car, some 18km west of Wana, the administrative headquarters of South Waziristan. The sources said that the militants killed belonged to Punjab. They were associated with Maulvi Nazir, a militant ‘commander’.

School blown up: The building of a government high school in Azam Warsak area was blown up by militants on Monday morning.

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