MIRAMSHAH, Sept 13 Six suspected militants, three foreigners among them, were killed in a US drone strike in Datakhel area of the North Waziristan Agency early on Sunday.

Sources said that two missiles fired by the pilotless plane hit the house of Khalid Khan Khederkhel in Naway Adda village near the border with Afghanistan at around 2.30am.

Three foreigners and three suspected local militants were killed in the attack. Their names could not be ascertained.