MIRAMSHAH, March 10 At least 14 people were killed and three others injured in two attacks by US drones in Maizer Madakhel area of Datakhel tehsil in North Waziristan on Wednesday.
In the first attack, a pilotless plane fired three missiles into a residential compound, killing seven suspected militants. After some time when a group of men believed to be insurgents were pulling out bodies from the rubble, a done fired four more missiles and killed another seven militants.
Sources said that the residential compound belonged to Hafiz Gul Bahadur who is closely linked with the Haqqani network.
They also said that one of the missiles had hit a vehicle the militants were using.
Local people said that the unmanned planes were hovering over the area till late in the night.
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