Drone attack kills four

Published October 12, 2008

MIRAMSHAH, Oct 11: Unmanned drones targeted a residential compound on the outskirts of Miramshah in North Waziristan on Saturday night, killing four people and injuring two.

Local people said that they had heard four explosions and Predator drones had been seen flying over the area.

They said that two missiles hit a house owned by a tribesman named Rahmat Jahan in an abandoned Afghan refugee camp near the town.

Sources said that bodies had been recovered from the debris. The unmanned air surveillance vehicles were flying over the area till the filing of this report. — Correspondent

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