20 killed in US drone attack in Pakistan
Thursday, 17 July 2014
BANNU, July 16 (Reuters): At least 20 militants were killed Wednesday in a US drone attack in Pakistan's North Waziristan region.
F our missile strikes, coming from an unknown number of US unmanned aircraft, pounded a compound of suspected militants in Datta Khel area located on the Pakistan-Afghanistan border, Xinhua reported.
The attack came in North Waziristan, where for the past month the Pakistani military has been fighting to wipe out longstanding bases of Taliban and other militants.
Elsewhere in North Waziristan, air strikes in the Shawal Valley killed 35 militants, according to a statement from the military.