(Previous Incident Code: B10 )

Local and international media reported that an alleged US drone had killed five militants and wounded at least six “others” as the Haqqani network was struck in Danda Darpakhel, north Waziristan.

In one of the first CIA strikes on the Haqqani Network (a militant group involved in attacks on US forces in Afghanistan) this strike on a housing compound killed at least five alleged militants and wounded up to a dozen.

The New York Times reported that “a missile fired from an unmanned aerial drone killed five militants and wounded six other people in Pakistan’s lawless tribal areas on Friday, according to a Pakistani security official and a local resident.”

The injured included caretaker Noor Khan Mehsud, though it was not further specified in the reports whether the wounded were militants or civilians.

The US denied carrying out the strike, as reported by The New York Times,