KOHAT, Sept 30: US planes dropped bombs at a house near the border town of Angor Adda in South Waziristan Agency, 415km south-west of Islamabad on Tuesday afternoon, eyewitnesses said.

Hussain Jan, a local resident, told Dawn on telephone from Angor Adda that two planes dropped bombs at the house of Badshah Jan in Jabba area, two kilometres north of Angor Adda at around 2pm.

He said that nobody was hurt in the air raid as men were out of home and two women had luckily left it moments before the attack to fetch water.

He said that bombardment by the US planes had increased in the Paktika province bordering South Waziristan Agency during the last couple of days. “US planes dropped bombs in the disputed territory claimed by both Pakistan and Afghanistan on Monday noon in which nobody was hurt,” he said.

He said that people coming from across the border had told him that a fierce battle was going on in the Paktika province between the US troops and the Taliban fighters.